You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who sprang at his image in the water, you are only hurting yourself, O foolish man. When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.
RumiDo not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.
RumiI was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.
RumiA lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.
RumiA craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute
RumiOur purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.
RumiWhen there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope.
RumiLet yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
RumiWe can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror
RumiLove is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face.
RumiI will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!
RumiIf you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place unless you take off your shoes. Your shoe-constriction has you confined. At night before sleeping you take off the tight shoes, and your soul releases into a place it knows. Dreams glide deeper.
RumiYou wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!
RumiIn his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says" your beauty lights up everything around you.
RumiWould you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
RumiAt every moment, Love's voice talks to us from left and from right. All we have to do is to know how to listen.
RumiDon't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.
RumiGod calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.
RumiLovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy.
RumiYesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one
RumiNeither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments and the psyche's labyrinth. Who then am I? A consciousness without origin, Not born in time, nor begotten here below. I am that which was, is and ever shall be, A jewel in the crown of the Divine Self, A star in the firmament of the luminous One.
RumiWays of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another . . . It's all praise, and it's all right.
RumiI have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky.
RumiLove is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and straight forward. Having died to self interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us Being; without cause give it back again. Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion. Religion seeks grace and favor, but those who gamble these away are God's favorites, for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the door of gain and loss.
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