Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.
RumiThere's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
RumiOnce the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now thatโs a blessing.
RumiI have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence
RumiYou are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.
RumiStudy me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
RumiRun from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.
RumiOh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state.
RumiThe Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.
RumiNo one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was.
RumiRemember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.
RumiMy dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.
RumiWhat in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul?
RumiThe morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.
RumiIn the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.
RumiThis being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!
RumiA lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.
RumiThe illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.
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