If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.
RumiHe whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.
RumiAll people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
RumiAll your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you.
RumiKill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.
RumiYou are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you
RumiReturn from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.
RumiYou can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent, it will be as if you have done nothing.
RumiIn their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
RumiFrom the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean.
RumiOne day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on my cheek the poem that hasn't been thought of.
RumiI want to see you. Know your voice. Recognize you when you first come 'round the corner. Sense your scent when I come into a room you've just left. Know the lift of your heel, the glide of your foot. Become familiar with the way you purse your lips then let them part, just the slightest bit, when I lean in to your space and kiss you. I want to know the joy of how you whisper "more
RumiIt was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him.
RumiThe mind says there is nothing beyond the physical world; the HEART says there is, and I've been there many times.
RumiI feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain.
RumiOh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!
RumiYou've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.
RumiSomeone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.
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