The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
RumiThe garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.
RumiNo more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.
RumiThe gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.
RumiA strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere?
RumiFor only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.
RumiLove is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test.
RumiI want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.
RumiWe may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.
RumiYou left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.
RumiI am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things.
RumiThat's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.
RumiSomething opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
RumiDrum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.
RumiWe alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.
RumiWhat is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.
RumiPractice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.
RumiThe water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.
RumiThat which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
RumiDo not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. "I come and go as I please," you say, "swift as a heartbeat." You can tease me as much as you like but never leave me.
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