Rumi
This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.Collection: World
Neither 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.Collection: Spiritual
O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.Collection: Happiness
Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here.Collection: Emotional
If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.Collection: Spiritual
Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.Collection: Tangled
Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.Collection: Water
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.Collection: Peace
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.Collection: Ignorance
The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.Collection: Faults
Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments.Collection: Giving
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.Collection: Inspirational
My 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.Collection: Heart
There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.Collection: Love
The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve.Collection: Jealous
If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.Collection: Eye
Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.Collection: Spring
They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual? They wonder about Solomon and all his wives. In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul and you are that. But we have ways within each other that will never be said by anyone.Collection: Love
Lovers don't meet in the end, they are in each other forever.Collection: Forever
War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.Collection: Children
I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool.Collection: Teacher
We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.Collection: Mirrors
Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.Collection: Spiritual
O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.Collection: Pain
Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do you want to come with us?Collection: Running
I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.Collection: Attitude
I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that.Collection: Rain
Only love itself can explain love and lovers.Collection: Lovers
Everything has to do with loving and not loving.Collection: Love
Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.Collection: Dance
Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains...Collection: Running
He is like a man using a candle to look for the sunCollection: Spiritual
Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving SilenceCollection: Silence
O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.Collection: Love Is
You are the drop,and the ocean you are kindness,you are anger, you are sweetness,you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened. you are the chamber of the sun, you are the abode of venus, you are the garden of all hope. Oh, Beloved, let me enter.Collection: Kindness
Kindle in thy heart the flame of love.Collection: Heart
In 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.Collection: Running
My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit.Collection: Sea
If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.Collection: Garden
If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.Collection: Stars
Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.Collection: Heart
Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe.Collection: Atoms
Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within.Collection: Seeing