Rumi
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.Collection: Love
There is a place where words are born of silence.Collection: Silence
Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.Collection: Mirrors
The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.Collection: Passion
No one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was.Collection: Regret
Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.Collection: Heart
If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.Collection: Joy
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.Collection: Yoga
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.Collection: Ocean
Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.Collection: World
What you seek is seeking you.Collection: Inspirational
I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.Collection: Desire
Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.Collection: Dance
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.Collection: Heart
You’ve seen my descent, now watch my rising.Collection: Healing
When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home.Collection: Home
I am not this hair. I am not this skin. I am the soul that lives within.Collection: Soul
Don’t be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don’t forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.Collection: Rain
Move, but don’t move the way fear makes you move.Collection: Moving
Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset.Collection: Light
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.Collection: Heart
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.Collection: Marriage
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.Collection: Soul
Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.Collection: Sea
Because I cannot sleep I make music in the night.Collection: Sleep
Muhammad says, ‘Love of one’s country is a part of the faith.’ But don’t take that literally! Your real ‘country’ is where you’re heading, not where you are. Don’t misread that hadith.Collection: Real
Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God.Collection: Stories
Your real “country” is where you’re heading, not where you are.Collection: Real