Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.
RumiStop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
RumiMany have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.
RumiLove Is the Treasure The temple of love is not love itself; True love is the treasure, Not the walls about it. Do not admire the decoration, But involve yourself in the essence, The perfume that invades and touches you- The beginning and the end. Discovered, this replaces all else, The apparent and the unknowable. Time and space are slaves to this presence.
Rumi