“The middle path is the way to wisdom.” Rumi

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. Rumi Love is the Water of Life. Everything other than love for the most beautiful God though it be sugar- eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of Water of Life. Rumi There is some kiss we want with our 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! At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face into mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door, and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window. Rumi The moon has become a dancer at

this festival of love. This dance of light, this

sacred blessing, this

divine love, beckons us to

a world beyond only

lovers can see with their eyes of fiery passion.

They are the chosen ones who have surrendered.

Once they were particles of light, now they are the radiant sun. They have left behind the world of deceitful games.

They are the privileged lovers who

create a new world

with their eyes of burning passion. Rumi Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Rumi Because of Love I have become the giver of light. Rumi It is Love that holds everything together, Love is everything. Rumi I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and your water too I have come all this way, eager for you Without shoes or shawl I want you to laugh To kill all your worries To love you To nourish you. Rumi Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world. Rumi You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life? Rumi I am in love with Love and Love is in love with me. My body is in love with the Soul and the Soul is in love with my body. I opened my arms to Love and Love embraced me like a lover Rumi

When it's cold and raining, you are more beautiful. And the snow brings me even closer to your lips. The inner secret, that which was never born, you are that freshness, and I am with you now. I can't explain the goings, or the comings. You enter suddenly, and I am nowhere again. Inside the majesty. Rumi Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.

If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God,

but then you keep stopping for long periods at mean spirited roadhouses. Rumi Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight. Rumi The way you make love is the way God will be with you. Rumi Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Rumi Oh, my friend, all that you see of me is just a shell, and the rest belongs to love. Rumi This divine love, beckons us to a world beyond only lovers can see with their eyes of fiery passion. Rumi

Dear God, Let all Lovers be content Give them happy endings Let their lives be celebration Let their hearts dance in the fire of your Love. Rumi Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Flow down and down in always Widening rings of being. Rumi Although I may try to describe Love, when I experience it, I am speechless. Although I may try to write about Love, I am rendered helpless; my pen breaks, and the paper slips away at the ineffable place where Lover, Loving and Loved are one. Rumi The lover is a king above all kings, unafraid of death, not at all interested in a golden

crown. The dervish has a pearl concealed under his

patched cloak. Why should he go begging door to

door? Rumi Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. Rumi

Whatever pearl you seek, Look for the pearl within the pearl! Rumi Only from the heart Can you touch the sky. Rumi Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet Through Love all that is copper will be gold. Through Love all dregs will turn to purest wine Through Love all pain will turn to medicine. Through Love the dead will all become alive. Through Love the king will turn into a slave! Rumi Love is the One who masters all things; I am mastered totally by Love. Rumi They will ask you what you have produced. Say to them, except for Love, what else can a lover produce? Rumi From the beginning of my life, I have been looking for your face, but today, I’ve seen it. Today I have seen the charm, the beauty, the unfathomable grace of the face that I was looking for. Rumi I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty and wish to see you with a hundred eyes. Rumi My heart has burned with passion and has searched forever for this wondrous beauty that I now behold. Rumi

Know that my beloved is hidden from everyone

Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs

Know that in my heart she is as clear as the

MOON Know that she is the life in my body

and in my soul. Rumi Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right

doing, there is a field.

I'll meet you there. Rumi You must marry your soul. That wedding is the way. Rumi You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought-wings, loosen your shoulders and open. Rumi There is something in us That has nothing to do with night and

day, Diamonds which come from no

earthly mine. Rumi If the sun were not in love, he would have no brightness, the side of the hill no grass on it. The ocean would come to rest somewhere. Rumi

What 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? Rumi This is the prayer of each:

You are the source of my

life. You separate essence from mud. You honor my soul. You bring rivers from the mountain springs. You brighten my

eyes. The wine you

offer takes me out

of myself into the

self we share. Doing

that is religion. Rumi I was you And never knew it. Rumi

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Rumi Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. Rumi This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, To cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. Rumi In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love. Rumi You are the Essence of the Essence, the intoxication of Love. I long to sing your praises but stand mute With the agony of wishing in my heart. Rumi Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi The real beloved is your beginning and your end. When you find that one, You'll no longer expect anything else. Rumi Of the book of God You are a copying, A mirror, wherein showed The beauty of the King. All God ever wrought Dwell not apart; All you've ever sought, Find it inside your heart. Rumi

Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river,

those who don't drink

dawn like a cup of spring

water or take in sunset

like supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep. Rumi With passion pray. With passion work. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God? Rumi Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I cannot stop asking. Rumi All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, And what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, And I intend to end up there. Rumi The Lover comes, the Lover comes! Open the way for him! He’s looking for a heart, Let’s show him one. I scream ―What you come to hunt is me!‖ He says laughingly, 'I’m here not to hunt you but to save you.' Rumi 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. Rumi

From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your face But today I have seen it Today I have seen the charm, the beauty The unfathomable grace of the face That I was looking for. Rumi I am bewildered by the magnificence of your

beauty, and wish to see you with a hundred

eyes. I am in the house of mercy,

and my heart is a place of prayer. Rumi

In my vertigo, in my dizziness, in my drunken

haze, whirling and dancing like a spinning

wheel, I saw myself as the source of

existence, I was there at the beginning

and I was the spirit of love.

Rumi But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue. Rumi The 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. Rumi Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. Rumi Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings. Rumi

Your bright face is my day

Your dark curls bring the

night If you do not let me

near you I promise not go to sleep nor rise Your magnificence has made me a

wonder Your charm has taught me the

way of love I am the progeny of

Abraham

I'll find my way through fire. Rumi

In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul and you are that. Rumi I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life. Now my loving is running toward my life shouting, What a bargain, let's buy it. Rumi Late by myself, in the boat by

myself No light and no land

anywhere cloud cover thick, I try

to stay just above the surface, but I am already

under and living in the ocean of your

love. Rumi Since I was cut from the

reedbed, I have made this

crying sound. Anyone apart from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a source longs to go back. Rumi

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? Rumi A rose's rarest essence lives in the thorn. Rumi There are amazing things

in the ocean, and there is

one who is the ocean.

Rumi Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Rumi There is no Love greater than Love

with no object. For then you,

yourself, have become love itself.

Rumi Because of

your love I

have lost

my sobriety

I am

intoxicated

by the madness of love. Rumi In the garden I see only your face From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance. Rumi

Drunk with the ecstasy of love I can no longer tell

the difference

betweeen drunkard

and drink Between

lover and Beloved. Rumi Because the idol is your

face, I have become an

idolater. Because the wine is from your cup, I've become a drunkard. In the existence of your

love, I have become non-

existent. This non-existence, linked to

you, is better than all

existence. Rumi Many hearts have sought refuge from this

love, but it drags and pulls them to its own

refuge Love so needs to love, that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. Rumi I died as a mineral and became a

plant, I died as plant and rose to

animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Rumi

Are you searching for the river of your soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the

stream and

join the river

that flows into the ocean. Rumi Love is reckless; not

reason. Reason seeks a

profit. Having died of

self-interest, Love risks everything and asks for nothing. Rumi 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.

Rumi I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light. Rumi

My place is the Placeless, my trace is Traceless, 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved Rumi You were born with potential You were born with goodness and trust You were born with ideals and dreams You were born with greatness You were born with wings You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings Learn to use them, and fly. Rumi A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah,

apparently two, but one in soul, you

and I. We feel the flowing water of life

here, you and I, with the garden's

beauty and the birds singing.

Rumi That 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. Rumi From the clear center of my

heart there are no edges to my

loving you I've heard it said there's a window that opens from one mind to another but if there were no wall, what need of installing a window? Rumi If the wind had taken me to you, I would have held tight to the skirts of the wind. I miss you so much that I would fly to you faster than a bird; But how can a bird with a clipped wing fly? Rumi

There comes a

holy and

transparent time

when every touch

of beauty opens the

heart to

tears. This is the time the Beloved of heaven is brought tenderly on earth. This is the time of the

opening of

the Rose.

Rumi Remember any night of all of our

nights but don't remember things

I've said. Rumi What was whispered to the Rose to break it open Last night, Was also whispered to my heart. Rumi Stop learning. Start knowing. The rose opens And opens And when it falls Falls outward. Rumi

I was dead I came alive I was tears I became

laughter all

because of love.

Rumi love said you are a candle

attracting

everyone

gathering

everyone around

you. Rumi love said you already

have your own

wings I will not give

you more

feathers. Rumi My heart is burning with love All can see this flame My heart is pulsing with

passion like waves on an

ocean. Rumi I’m at home wherever I

am And in the room of

lovers I can see with

closed eyes the beauty

that dances. Rumi

Behind the veils

intoxicated with love

I too dance the

rhythm of this

moving world I have

lost my senses in

my world of lovers. Rumi Love 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. Rumi Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door. She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side. Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands. Rumi

Work. Keep digging your well. Don't think about getting off from work. Water is there somewhere. Submit to daily practice. Your loyalty to that Is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside Will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there. Rumi

When I am with you, we stay up all night,

When you're not here, I can't get to sleep.

Praise God for these two insomnias

And the difference between them. Rumi I have phrases and whole pages memorized,

but nothing can be told of love. You must wait until you and I are living together. In the conversation we'll have

then...be patient...then. Rumi When the sweet glance of my true love caught my eyes,

Like alchemy, it transformed my copper-like soul. I searched for Him with a thousand hands, He stretched out His arms and clutched my feet. Rumi There is a smile and gentleness inside.

When I learned the name and address of

that, I went to where you sell perfume.

I begged you not to trouble me so with

longing. Come out and play!

Flirt more naturally. Teach me how to kiss. On the ground a

spread blanket, flame that's caught and burning well, cumin seeds browning,

I am inside all of this with my soul.

Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy,

absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. Rumi

When your chest is free of your limiting ego, Then

you will see the ageless Beloved. You cannot see yourself without a mirror; Look at the

Beloved, He is the brightest mirror.

Rumi We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. Rumi I want to hold you close like a lute so we can cry out with loving. You would rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror, and here are the stones. Rumi You bewilder us with your

grace, all evils transformed into

goodness. You are the master

alchemist. You light the fire of love in Earth and Sky, in heart and soul of every being. Through your loving, existence and non-existence merge. All opposites unite. All that is profane becomes sacred again. Rumi When it's cold and

raining, you are more

beautiful. And the snow

brings me even closer

to your lips. The inner secret, that which was never born, you are that freshness, and I am with you now. I can't explain the goings, or the comings. You enter

suddenly, and I am nowhere

again.

Inside the majesty. Rumi

When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for one breath, In that moment you will find your true destiny. Alas, don't spoil this precious

moment Moments like this

are very, very rare.

Rumi And just the moment when you are all confused leaps forth a voice hold me close I'm love and I'm always yours. Rumi Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause; it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless. Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love. Rumi A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice. Rumi

A lover asked his beloved: Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied: I have died to myself and I live for you. I've disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for

you. I've forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I've

become a scholar. I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am

able. I love myself...I love

you. I love you...I love

myself. Rumi

I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love. Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars. You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love. Even so, you have always been connected to me. Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-

manifest. I am life itself. You have been a prisoner

of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love. Rumi You have been a prisoner of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love. Rumi I desire you more than food or drink. My body my senses my mind hunger for your taste. I can sense your presence in my heart although you belong to all

the world. I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from

you. Rumi

I am so small I can barely be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, But they see enormous things. Rumi Oh lovers, where are you going? Who are you looking for? Your beloved is right here. She lives in your own neighborhood. Her face is veiled. She hides behind screens calling for you, while you search and lose yourself in the wilderness and the desert. Cease looking for flowers, there blooms a garden in your own home. While you go looking for trinkets, your treasure house awaits you in your own being. There is no need for suffering, God is here! Rumi In love...nothing is eternal, but drinking your wine. There

is no reason for bringing my life to you, other than losing

it. I said, I just want to know you, and then disappear. She said, knowing me does not mean dying. Rumi This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in Sunlight. Rumi Look at me and hear me,

because I am here...

just for that! Rumi Oh God! I have discovered love! How

marvelous! How good! How beautiful it is! My body is warm from the heat of this love. Rumi

In love, nothing is eternal but drinking your wine, There

is no reason for bringing my life to you, other than

losing it

I said 'I just want to know you, and then disappear' She

said,"Knowing me does not mean dying"

Rumi .

My heart is on fire In my madness I roam the desert The flames of my passion devour the wind and the sky My cries of longing My wails of sorrow Are tormenting my soul

You wait patiently Looking into my intoxicated eyes You accept my passion with the serenity of Love You are the Master of Existence One day I shall be a

Lover like You Rumi Since you will come and throw kisses at my tombstone later why not give them to me now this is me that same person. Rumi My love for you has driven me insane I wander aimlessly the ruins of my life, my old self a stranger to me Because of your love I have broken with my past My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage I look for you in my innermost being. Rumi Cease looking for flowers, there blooms a garden in your own home. Rumi Die, die, die in this love. If you die in this love your soul will be renewed. Rumi

You come to us from another world From beyond the stars and void of space. Transcendent. Pure. of unimaginable Beauty. Bringing with you the essence of Love. You transform all who are touched by you. Mundane concerns, troubles and sorrows Dissolve in your presence. Bringing joy to ruler and ruled. To peasant and king. Rumi Tonight is a night of union for the stars and of scattering, scattering, since a bride is coming from the skies, consisting of a full moon. Rumi My sweet heart, you have aroused my passion, your touch has filled me with desire, I am no longer separate

from you, these are precious moments, I beseech you, don't let me wait,

let me merge with you. Rumi Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon’s

reflection. Rumi

You amuse me with your touch

although I can't see your hands.

You have kissed me with

tenderness although I haven't

seen your lips You are hidden

from me. But it is you who keeps me

alive Perhaps the time will

come when you will tire of

kisses I shall be happy even for insults from you I only ask that you keep some attention on me. Rumi 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. Rumi The wine we really drink is our own

blood. Our bodies ferment in these

barrels. We give everything for a glass of this. We give our minds for a sip. Rumi Come to the orchid in Spring. There is light and wine, and

sweethearts in the pomegranate

flowers. If you do not come, these do not matter. If you do come, these do not matter. Rumi

I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the

next, did not descend from Adam and Eve or any

origin story. My place is the placeless, a trace of the traceless.

Neither body nor soul. I belong to the beloved.

I have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being. Rumi I 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. Rumi Nightingales are put in cages

because their songs give

pleasure. Whoever heard of

keeping a crow? Rumi Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it. Rumi

Pale sunlight,

pale the wall.

Love moves

away. The light

changes. I need

more grace than

I thought. Rumi I burn each second of my life to love, Each second of my life burns out, in love, In each leaping second, love lives afresh. Rumi

I have a thirsty fish in

me that can never find

enough of what it’s

thirsty for

A house of love with no

limits,

a presence more beautiful than Venus or the

moon, a beauty whose image fills the mirror

of the heart.

Rumi We are the night ocean filled With glints of light. We are the space Between the fish and the moon, While we sit here together. Rumi I've torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away. If you're not completely naked, wrap your beautiful robe of words around you, and go back to sleep. Rumi There is only one way to win him, this Beloved of mine - Become his. Rumi

The springtime of Lovers has come, that this dust bowl may become a

garden; the proclamation of heaven

has come, that the bird of the soul

may rise in flight. The sea becomes

full of pearls, the salt marsh becomes sweet as

kauthar, the stone becomes a diamond

from the mine, the body becomes wholly

soul. Rumi

With Your sweet Soul, this soul of

mine has merged as water does

with wine. Who can part the water

from the wine, or me from You

when we combine? You have

become my greater self; how can smallness limit

me? You've taken on my

being, how shall I not take

on Yours? Forever, You

have claimed me that forever I may know You're mine. Rumi Your love has pierced me to the

depths, its ecstasy entwines both

bone and nerve.

Rumi O Sun, fill our house once more with light!

Make happy all your friends and blind your

foes! Rise from behind the hill, transform the

stones To rubies and the sour grapes to

wine!

O Sun, make our vineyard fresh again, And fill the steppes with houris and green cloaks! Physician of the lovers, heaven's

lamp! Rescus the lovers! Help the suffering!

Show but your face - the world is filled with light! But if you cover it, it's the darkest night! Rumi I said, 'O sweet beloved, you are the refuge of my soul.' He said, 'If you belong to me, don't talk

of your own soul.' I said, 'Why do you cut me with your sharp words?' He said, 'My words wouldn't hurt you if you weren't in love with yourself.' Rumi Beating your wings and feathers, you broke free from this cage. Rising

up to the sky you attained the world of the soul.

Rumi O heart, what a wonderful bird you are. Seeking divine heights, Flapping your wings, you smashed the pointed spears of your enemy. Rumi The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.

Rumi

never lose hope when the Beloved sends you away. If you're abandoned if you're left hopeless

tomorrow for sure you'll be called again. If the door is

shut right in your face keep waiting with patience don't leave right away. Seeing

your patience your love will soon summon you with grace raise you like a

champion. Rumi Should Love's heart rejoice unless I burn? For my heart is Love's dwelling. If You will burn Your house, burn it, Love! Who will say, 'It's not allowed'? Burn this house thoroughly!

The lover's house improves with fire.

From now on I will make burning my aim,

From now on I will make burning my aim, for I am like the candle: burning only makes me brighter.

Abandon sleep tonight; traverse fro one night the region of the sleepless. Look upon these lovers who have become distraught

and like moths have died in union with the One Beloved.

Look upon this ship of God's creatures

and see how it is sunk in Love. Rumi Sometimes I wonder, sweetest love,

if you Were a mere dream in a long winter night,

A dream of spring-days, and of golden light

Which sheds its rays upon a frozen heart;

A dream of wine that fills the drunken eye.

And so I wonder, sweetest love, if I

Should drink this ruby wine, or rather weep;

Each tear a bezel with your face engraved,

A rosary to memorize your name... There are so many ways to call you back

Yes, even if you only were a dream.

Rumi Once a beloved asked her lover:

'Friend, You have seen many places in the world!

Now - which of all these cities was the best?' He said: 'The city where my sweetheart lives!' Rumi From myself I am copper, through You, friend, I am gold.

From myself I'm a stone,

but through You I am a gem! Rumi Lover whispers to my ear,

'Better to be a prey than a hunter.

Make yourself my fool. Stop trying to be the sun and become a speck!

Dwell at My door and be homeless. Don't pretend to be a candle, be a moth,

So you may taste the savor of Life

And know the power hidden in serving.'

Rumi Show me your face I crave flowers and gardens open your lips I crave the taste of honey come out from behind the clouds I desire a sunny face. Rumi In every breath if you’re the center of your own desires you’ll lose the grace of

your beloved but if in every breath you blow away yourself claim the ecstasy of

love will soon arrive.

Rumi

in every breath if you’re the center of your own thoughts the sadness of

autumn will fall on you but if in every breath you strip naked just like a winter the joy of spring

will grow from within. Rumi all your unfulfilled desires are from your greed for gain of fulfillments let go of them all

and they will be sent as gifts. Rumi fall in love with the agony of love not the ecstasy then

the beloved

will fall in love with you. Rumi A true Lover doesn't follow any one religion, be sure of that. Since in the religion of Love, there is no irreverence or faith.

When in Love, body, mind, heart and soul don't even exist. Become this, fall in Love, and you will not be separated again. Rumi Before coming to this world we were in heaven. We were friends of the angels. There is our real homeland, and we will return to it. Rumi

I will soothe you and heal you. I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns. Rumi You twist my heart, dwell in my

mind and fill my eyes, you are my

joy I can’t be without you. You are my sleep, my rest, the water I

drink. You are my clarity, my dignity, my

world

I can’t be without you. Rumi Your fragrant breath

like the morning

breeze has come to the stillness of the

garden You have breathed new life

into me.

Rumi The world is a prison and we are the prisoners: dig a hole in the prison and let yourself out! Rumi The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart. Rumi In truth everything and

everyone Is a shadow of the

Beloved, And our seeking is

His seeking And our words

are His words... We search for Him here and

there, while looking right at

Him. Sitting by His side, we

ask:

'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?' Rumi

He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, 'Live!' Rumi

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God, will see only their own faces in it. Rumi Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real Sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl. Rumi I bow to you for the dust of your feet Is the crown on my head And as I walk towards you Every step I take is a blessing. Rumi Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening. Rumi O tongue, you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease. Rumi The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy. Rumi Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. As the Prophet said, 'The faithful are mirrors to one another.' Rumi Whoever gives reverence receives reverence. Rumi If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy. Rumi

Dissolve in the Being who is everything. Rumi There is no worse sickness for the soul, O you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection. Rumi The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end. Rumi How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been a heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth! Rumi O heart, if you want to join us, raise yourself to the dome of the inner sky Enter the fortress that no one can break. Rumi Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life? Why should I be a donkey's slave when I ride upon a magical horse? Why should I be less than the

Moon when there are no scorpions at my feet? Why should I stay at the bottom of a well when a strong rope is in my

hand? Rumi I am the rays of the Sun dancing through the windows of every house. Rumi

I am the glorious Sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven. Rumi The truth of what you see is written all over your face! Rumi I come to you without me, come to me without you. Self is the thorn in the sole of the soul. Merge with others, If you stay in self, you are a grain, you are a drop, If you merge with others, you are an ocean, you are a mine. Rumi

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu Buddhist, sufi, or zen.

Not any religion or cultural system.

I am not from the East or the West,

not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal,

not composed of elements at all.

I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next,

did not descend from Adam or Eve or any origin story.

My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.

Neither body nor soul, as I belong to the Beloved.

I have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.

Rumi I drank that wine of which the soul is its vessel. Its ecstacy has stolen my intellect away. A light came and kindled a flame in the depth of my soul. A light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly. Rumi In generosity and helping others be like a river. In compassion and grace be like sun. In concealing others' faults be like night. In anger and fury be like dead. In modesty and humility be like earth. In tolerance be like a sea. Either exist as you are or be as you look. Rumi Let silence take you to the core of life. Rumi

The soil is faithful to its trust:

whatever you have sown in it, you

reap the same. But until springtime brings the touch of God, the soil does not reveal its secrets. Rumi Close the language-door, and open the love-window The moon won't use the door, only the window. Rumi Go my friend Bestow your love Even on your foes If you touch their hearts What do you think will happen. Rumi Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. Rumi In the midst of making form, love made this form that melts form, with love for the door, soul the vestibule. Rumi Watch the dust grains moving in the light near the window.

Their dance is our dance. Rumi

I have died many times, but your breath made me alive again. Rumi I am the Spirit Moon with no place. You do not see me for I am hidden inside the soul. Rumi

I am the garden of all gardens I speak as the King of all flowers I am the spring of all waters. 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. Rumi My soul is screaming in ecstasy

Every fiber of my being Is in love with you Your effulgence

Has lit a fire in my heart. Rumi My arrow of love has arrived at the target I am in the house of mercy and my heart is a place of prayer. Rumi No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here. Rumi A thorn in the foot is hard to

find. What about a thorn in the

heart? If everyone saw the thorn in his

heart, when would sorrow gain the

upper hand?

Rumi Don't take a wooden sword into battle. Go, find one of steel; then march forward with joy. Rumi Love, the life-giving garden of this world. Wherever Beauty looks, Love is also there. Rumi

Beauty and Love are as body and soul. Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond. They have together since the beginning of

time-Side by side, step

by step. Rumi

This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no

low, no smart, no

ignorant, no special

assembly, no grand

discourse, no proper schooling

required. There is no

master,

no disciple. Rumi Patience is the key to joy. Rumi You think the shadow is the substance. Rumi That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility. Rumi

People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another. Rumi One need not worry or fret about any secret magic To begin to unlock her inner soul. It will respond to the one who seeks it. Rumi You wander from room to room. Hunting for the diamond necklace. That is already around your neck. Rumi In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make

poems.

You dance inside my chest,

where no one sees you. Rumi With every breath I plant the seeds of devotion - I am a farmer of the heart. Rumi Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul. Rumi 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. Rumi Whoever brought me here will have to take me home. Rumi

I am a sculptor, a molder of form. In every moment I shape an idol. But then, in front of you, I melt them down. I can rouse a hundred forms and fill them with spirit, but when I look into your face, I want to throw them in the fire. Rumi My souls spills into yours and is blended. Because my soul has absorbed your fragrance, I cherish it. Rumi I merge with my Beloved

When I participate in love. Rumi In this house of mud and water,

My heart has fallen to ruins.

Enter this house,

My Love,

Or let me leave. Rumi

Because your sighs have fermented my blood I need no wine. Rumi I begin the Night Journey in your

eyes toward the wild desert

fragrance

I longed for all day. Rumi

We are each others' search for what's between our mirrors. Rumi On the wick of your eye, you lit me: I danced out in your seeing. From the golden oil in my bones I kindled you. Rumi A soul for my soul, you gushed through my hollow places. Anoint me now! Stream down this broken necklace of dangling pearls

from throat to

thigh. Unite the sea and setting sun. Rumi

When dawn comes, we'll

whisper which of us was

stillness,

which the dancer. Rumi Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun. Rumi What is the body? That shadow of a

shadow of your love, which somehow

contains

the entire universe. Rumi There is no reality but God, Says the completely surrendered sheik, Who is an ocean for all beings. Rumi I can't stop

pointing to the

beauty. Every moment and place

says, 'Put this design in

your carpet!'

Rumi I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence. Rumi A prince is just a conceit until he does something with generosity. Rumi Why use bitter soup for

healing when sweet water is

everywhere?

Rumi

I am God's Lion, not the lion of passion.... I have no longing

except for the

One. When a wind of personal reaction comes, I do not go along with it. Rumi Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:

every success depends upon focusing the heart.

Rumi Everything you possess of skill, and wealth and handicraft,

wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest? Rumi My heart is expanding a thousand fold. Every cell, taking wings, flies about the world.

All seek separately the many faces of my Beloved. Rumi Your task is not to seek for love,

but merely to seek and find all the barriers

within yourself

that you have built against it.

Rumi

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing

and right doing 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. Rumi ―If you are irritated by every rub,

how will your mirror be polished?‖

Rumi

―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.‖ Rumi ―You were born with wings,

why prefer to crawl through life?‖

Rumi

―What you seek is seeking you.‖ Rumi ―Ignore those that make you fearful and sad,

that degrade you back towards disease and death.‖

Rumi ―When I am with you, we stay up all night.

When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.‖ Rumi ―When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.‖ Rumi ―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.‖ Rumi

―Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.‖ Rumi ―The wound is the place where the Light enters you.‖ Rumi ―Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.‖ Rumi ―In your light I learn how to love.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you,

but sometimes I do,

and that sight becomes this art.‖ Rumi ―My soul is from elsewhere,

I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.‖

Rumi ―Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.‖ Rumi

―Forget safety. Live where you fear to

live. Destroy your

reputation. Be

notorious.‖ Rumi ―Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.‖ Rumi ―There is a candle in your heart,

ready to be kindled.

There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it,

don't you?‖

Rumi ―This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.‖ Rumi ―Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.‖ Rumi

―A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.‖ Rumi ―Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.‖ Rumi ―I want to see you. Know your voice. Recognize you when you

first come 'round the

corner.

Sense your scent when I

come into a room you've

just left. Know the lift of your

heel, the glide of your

foot.

Become familiar with the way you purse your lips then let them part,

just the slightest

bit, when I lean in to your

space and kiss you.

I want to know the joy of how you whisper "more‖ Rumi

―I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.‖ Rumi ―That 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.‖ Rumi ―Silence is the language of

God,

All else is poor translation.‖ Rumi ―Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.‖ Rumi ―We come spinning out of nothingness, Scattering stars like dust.‖ Rumi ―People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings

and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you

would fly up like doves.‖ Rumi

―Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.‖ Rumi ―Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.‖ Rumi ―Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.‖ Rumi ―Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?‖ Rumi ―Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.‖ Rumi ―Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.‖ Rumi ―Either give me more wine or leave me alone.‖ Rumi

―Reason is powerless

in the expression of Love.‖

Rumi

―An eye is meant to see

things. The soul is here

for its own joy. A head has one use: For loving a true love. Feet: To chase after. Love is for vanishing into the sky. The

mind, for learning what men have done

and tried to do.

Mysteries are not to be solved: The

eye goes blind when it only wants to

see why. A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.‖ Rumi ―Two there are who are never satisfied – the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.‖ Rumi ―Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.‖ Rumi ―Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.‖ Rumi ―But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.‖

Rumi ―Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah… it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.‖ Rumi ―A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.‖ Rumi ―Beauty surrounds us.‖ Rumi ―I didn't come here of my own accord,

and I can't leave that way.

Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.‖ Rumi ―Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.‖ Rumi ―I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.‖ Rumi

―You try to be faithful And sometimes you're cruel. You are mine. Then, you leave. Without you, I can't cope. And when you take the lead, I become your footstep. Your absence leaves a void. Without you, I can't cope. You have disturbed my sleep, You have wrecked my image. You have set me apart. Without you, I can't cope.‖ Rumi ―This being human is a guest house.

Every morning is a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...

Welcome and entertain them all.

Treat each guest honorably.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,

meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent

as a guide from beyond.‖

Rumi ―And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?‖ Rumi ―Travel brings power and love back into your life.‖ Rumi ―You wander from room to

room Hunting for the diamond

necklace That is already

around your neck!‖

Rumi

―Be like melting snow -- wash yourself of yourself.‖ Rumi ―Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of

losing, who has not the slightest interest

even in his own personality: he's

free.‖

Rumi ―Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.‖ Rumi ―I know you're tired but come, this is the way.‖ Rumi ―The breezes at dawn have secrets

to tell you

Don't go back to sleep!

You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!‖ Rumi

―In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.‖ Rumi ―Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.‖ Rumi ―Remember.

The way you make love

is the way God will be with you.‖

Rumi ―On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open

and the world is full of beauty.

Today is such a day.‖ Rumi ―All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.‖ Rumi

―Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. ‖ Rumi ―Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.

How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.‖ Rumi ―They say there is a doorway from heart to heart,

but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?‖ Rumi ―Is it really so that the one I love is

everywhere?‖

Rumi ―And still, after all this time,

the Sun has never said to the Earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky.‖ Rumi ―At night, I open the

window and ask the moon

to come

and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door

and open the love-

window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.‖ Rumi

―You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you‖ Rumi ―Only from the heart can you touch the sky.‖ Rumi ―Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.‖ Rumi ―Here is a relationship

booster that is guaranteed

to work:

Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid, make your eyes light up as if you just heard

something

brilliant.‖

Rumi

―For ages you have come and gone courting this delusion. For ages you have run from the pain and forfeited the ecstasy. So come, return to the root of the

root of your own soul. Although you appear in earthly

form

Your essence is pure

Consciousness.

You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light. So come, return to the root of the

root of your own soul. When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, Return to the root of the

root of your own soul. You descended from Adam, by the pure Word of God, but you turned your sight to the empty show of this world. Alas, how can you be satisfied with so

little? So come, return to the root of the

root of your own soul.

Why are you so enchanted by this

world when a mine of gold lies

within you? Open your eyes and

come --- Return to the root of the

root of your own soul. You were born from the rays of God's

Majesty when the stars were in their

perfect place. How long will you suffer

from the blows of a nonexistent hand? So come, return to the root of the

root of your own soul. You are a ruby encased in granite.

How long will you deceive Us with this outer

show?

O friend, We can see the truth in your eyes! So come, return to the root of the

root of your own soul. After one moment with that glorious

Friend you became loving, radiant, and

ecstatic. Your eyes were sweet and full

of fire. Come, return to the root of the

root of your own soul.

Shams-e Tabriz, the King of the

Tavern has handed you an eternal

cup, And God in all His glory is pouring the wine. So come! Drink! Return to the root of the

root of your own soul.

Rumi Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That. Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving –

you are That.

The road that leads to the City is endless; Go without head and

feet and you'll already

be there. What else could you be? –

you are That.‖

Rumi ―Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!‖ Rumi ―When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your

hands, or the gold. Look at the

giver.‖ Rumi

―My lips got lost on the way to the kiss -

that's how drunk I was.‖

Rumi ―Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. ‖ Rumi ―Like a sculptor, if necessary,

carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.‖ Rumi ―The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the

night....‖

Rumi ―Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.‖ Rumi ―Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies...‖ Rumi

―Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged‖ Rumi ―The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.‖ Rumi ―Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door with open.‖ Rumi ―There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.‖ Rumi ―The lion is most handsome when looking for food.‖ Rumi ―If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God Will see only their own faces in it.‖ Rumi

If anyone asks you how the perfect

satisfaction of all our

sexual wanting will look,

lift your face and say, Like this. When someone mentions the

gracefulness of the night sky, climb

up on the roof and dance and say, Like this. If anyone wants to know what "spirit" is, or what "God’s fragrance" means, lean your head toward him or

her. Keep your face there

close. Like this. When someone quotes the old poetic

image about clouds gradually

uncovering the moon, slowly loosen knot

by knot the strings of your robe. Like this. If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead, don’t try to explain the miracle. Kiss me on the lips. Like this. Like this. When someone asks what it means to "die for love," point here. If someone asks how tall I am,

frown and measure with your

fingers the space between the

creases on your forehead.

This tall. The soul sometimes leaves the body, the

returns. When someone doesn’t believe

that, walk back into my house. Like this. When lovers moan,

they’re telling our

story. Like this. I am a sky where spirits

live. Stare into this

deepening blue, while the

breeze says a secret. Like this. When someone asks what there is

to do, light the candle in his hand. Like this. How did Joseph’s scent come to Jacob? Huuuuu. How did Jacob’s sight return? Huuuu. A little wind cleans the eyes. Like this. When Shams comes back from

Tabriz, he’ll put just his head

around the edge of the door to

surprise us Like this.‖ Rumi

―Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.‖ Rumi ―I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers,

these are not true

distinctions.‖

Rumi ―Drum 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.‖

Rumi ―You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?‖ Rumi ―The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.‖ Rumi I don't get tired of you.

Don't grow weary of being

compassionate toward me!

All this thirst equipment must surely be tired of me, the

water jar, the water carrier. I have a thirsty fish in me that can never find enough of

what it's thirsty for! Show me the way to the ocean! Break these half-measures,

these small containers. All this fantasy and grief. Let my house be drowned in the wave that rose last night in the

courtyard hidden in the center of my chest. Joseph fell like the moon into my well. The harvest I expected was washed away. But no matter. A fire has risen above my tombstone hat. I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music and this dawn and the warmth of your cheek against mine. The grief-armies assemble, but I'm not going with them. This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence comes over me, and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.‖ Rumi ―The universe and the light of the stars

come through me.‖

Rumi ―The 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.‖ Rumi ―Give your weakness

to one who helps.‖

Rumi

―Oh sky, without me, do not change, Oh moon, without me, do not shine;

Oh earth, without me, do not grow,

Oh time, without me, do not go.

...Oh, you cannot go, without me.‖ Rumi ―The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,

but its smoke becomes visible in the end. ‖

Rumi ―The cure for pain is in the pain.‖ Rumi ―A 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?‖ Rumi ―When you go through a hard

period,

When everything seems to oppose

you, When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!‖ Rumi ―You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and

fly.‖

Rumi

―Study 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.‖ Rumi

―We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.‖ Rumi

―Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.‖ Rumi

―I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing‖ Rumi

―Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.‖ Rumi

―The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.‖ Rumi ―Whoever finds love beneath

hurt and grief disappears into

emptiness with a thousand new disguises‖ Rumi ―My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call. ‖ Rumi ―You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into

shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening

and closing of our hands.

You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.‖ Rumi ―Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.‖ Rumi

―O my choice

beauty you’ve

gone But your love remains in my heart your image in my eye O guide on my winding road I keep turning round and round in the hopes of finding you‖ Rumi ―The same wind that uproots

trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being strong.

The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are. It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves. It leaves the leaves alone.‖ Rumi ―Respond to every

call that excites your

spirit.‖ Rumi ―Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long

kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can

be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by

bone, that what died last night can be

whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out?

I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.‖ Rumi ―Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.‖ Rumi ―There are thousands of wines

that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same! Jesus was lost in his love for God. His donkey was drunk with barley.‖ Rumi ―Because I cannot sleep i make music in the night‖ Rumi ―Stars burn clear

all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.‖ Rumi

―This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.‖ Rumi ―Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.‖ Rumi ―I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and your water too I have come all this way, eager for you

Without shoes or shawl I want you to laugh To kill all your worries To love you To nourish you.‖ Rumi ―Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land of absence Be silent Don’t say a thing Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there‖ Rumi

―let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.‖ Rumi

―I searched for God among the Christians and on the Cross and therein I found Him not. I went into the ancient temples of idolatry; no trace of Him was there. I entered the mountain cave of Hira and then went as far as Qandhar but God I found not. With set purpose I fared to the summit of Mount Caucasus and found there only 'anqa's habitation. Then I directed my search to the Kaaba, the resort of old and young; God was not there even. Turning to philosophy I inquired about him from ibn Sina but found Him not within his range. I fared then to the scene of the Prophet's experience of a great divine manifestation only a "two bow-lengths' distance from him" but God was not there even in that exalted court. Finally, I looked into my own heart and there I saw Him; He was nowhere else.‖ Rumi

―We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.‖ Rumi

―Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing or two about whirling.‖ Rumi

―You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.‖ Rumi ―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?‖ Rumi Rumi ―Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is really a fortunate sovereign. Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love. Love is a cloud that scatters pearls.‖ Rumi ―I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.‖ Rumi Rumi We were green:

we ripened and grew golden.

The Sea terrified us:

we learned how to drown.

Rumi

―Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.‖ Rumi ―beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I'll meet you there‖ Rumi ―Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?‖ Rumi ―The fault is in the one who blames.

Spirit sees nothing to criticize.‖ Rumi ―Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.‖ Rumi ―The ear participates, and helps arrange

marriages; the eye has already made love

with what it sees.

The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear

hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; but

when you see, inner areas change. If all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the

fire will agree to cook you! Certain energies come only when you burn. If you long for belief, sit down in the fire! When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.‖ Rumi ―Let silence take you to the core of life.‖ Rumi

―Where lowland is, that's where water goes.

All medicine wants is pain to cure.‖ Rumi ―Work on your strong qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.‖ Rumi ―I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul… Love says, ―You are right, but don’t claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.‖ Rumi ―Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.‖ Rumi ―Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames‖ Rumi ―Make your last journey

from this strange world

soar for the heights

where there is no more separation of you and your home God has created your wings not to be

dormant as long as you are

alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive‖ Rumi

―Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.‖ Rumi ―Love from the soul.‖ Rumi ―You think of yourself as a citizen of the universe.

You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out of this dust you have created a personal image, and have forgotten about the essence of your true origin.‖ Rumi One night a man was crying, Allah! Allah! His lips grew sweet with the praising, until a cynic said, "So! I have heard you calling out, but have you ever gotten any response?" The man had no answer to that. He quit praying and fell into a confused sleep. He dreamed he saw Khidr, the guide of souls, in a thick, green foliage. "Why did you stop praising?" "Because I've never heard anything back." "This longing you express is the return message." The grief you cry out from draws you toward

nion.

Your pure sadness that wants help is the secret cup. Listen to the moan of a dog for its master. That whining is the connection.

There are love dogs no one knows the names of.

Give your life to be one of them.‖ Rumi

―Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face every day.‖ Rumi ―We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine.

Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller!

We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting

the royal wine.‖

Rumi ―You are the drop and the ocean, you are kindness and the anger,

you are sweetness and 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.‖ Rumi ―For the thirst to possess your

love, Is worth my blood a

hundred times.‖ Rumi ―Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.‖ Rumi ―What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.‖ Rumi

―This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.‖ Rumi ―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.‖ Rumi ―Today I'm out wandering, turning my

skull into a cup for others to drink wine

from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!‖ Rumi ―Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.‖ Rumi ―Soul receives from soul that knowledge, not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.‖ Rumi ―Sorrow prepares you for joy.

It violently sweeps everything out of your house,

so that new joy can find space to enter.

It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart,

so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.

It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.‖ Rumi ―The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.‖ Rumi

―Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.‖ Rumi except in your mind.‖ A 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‖ Rumi ―Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight, a lonely hiddenness. Other pleasure gathers a crowd, starts a fight, lots of noise there. But soul beauty stays quiet.. His amazing whereabouts unknown inside my heart.‖ Rumi ―What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear." Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed.‖ Rumi ―Dancing is not just getting up painlessly,

like a leaf blown on the wind;

dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body

to hang suspended between the worlds.‖ Rumi ―Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.‖ Rumi

―Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish.‖ Rumi ―And patience flees my heart, And

reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, without your love's security?‖ Rumi ―There came one and knocked at the door of the

Beloved. And a voice answered and said, 'Who is

there?' The lover replied, 'It is I.' 'Go hence,' returned the voice; 'there is no room within for thee and me.' Then came the lover a second time and knocked and again the voice demanded, 'Who is there?' He answered, 'It is thou.' 'Enter,' said the voice, 'for I am

within.‖ Rumi

―There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.‖ Rumi ―Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.‖ Rumi ―This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real.

Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.‖ Rumi ―Love asks us to enjoy our life For nothing good can come of death. Who is alive? I ask. Those who are born of love. Seek us in love itself,

Seek love in us

ourselves. Sometimes I

venerate love,

Sometimes it venerates me.‖ Rumi

―Drum 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.‖ Rumi ―God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.‖ Rumi ―And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet.

The other makes wet clothes dry.

They seem to be thwarting each other,

but their work is a perfect harmony.

Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.‖ Rumi ―These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.‖ Rumi ―The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.‖ Rumi ―Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in

Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of

safety. ‖ Rumi ―Some Hindus have an elephant to

show. No one here has ever seen an

elephant. They bring it at night to a dark

room. One by one, we go in the dark and come

out saying how we experience the animal. One of us happens to touch the

trunk. A water-pipe kind of creature. Another, the ear. A strong, always moving

back and forth, fan-animal. Another, the

leg. I find it still, like a column on a temple. Another touches the curve back. A leathery throne. Another, the cleverest, feels the tusk. A rounded sword made of

porcelain. He is proud of his description. Each of us touches one place and understands the whole in that way. The palm and the fingers feeling in the dark are how the senses explore the reality of the elephant.

If each of us held a candle there, and if we went in together, we could see it.‖ Rumi ―If I can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow‖ Rumi ―We 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.‖

Rumi ―I'm in love! Your advice, what are

they?

Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!" But if my heart that has gone mad! Those strings on my feet What is the point?‖ Rumi

―Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor,

and in the arms of the Sea be secure. Who

indeed should be so fortunate? An Ocean wooing a drop! In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.‖ Rumi ―If we come to sleep

we are His drowsy

ones And if we come

to wake we are in His

hands If we come to weeping we are His cloud full of

raindrops And if we come to

laughing we are His lightning in that moment If we come to anger and battle it is the reflection of His wrath And if we come to peace and pardon it is the reflection of His love Who are we in this complicated world?‖ Rumi ―Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.‖ Rumi

feel any sorrow. Never will a Lover's robe be touched by mortals. Never will a Lover's body be found buried in the earth. To Love is to be God.‖ Rumi ―I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference‖ Rumi ―Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of

my door. She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my

side. Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair My face became all eyes, and my eyes all

hands.‖

Rumi ―Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.‖ Rumi ―There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!‖ Rumi

―Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your

heart, you can go back to sleep. The power of

Love is exclusive

to us, you can go back to sleep. I have been

burnt by the fire

of Love. You who have no such yearning in your

heart, go back to sleep. The path of Love, has seventy-two folds and countless facets. Your love and religion is all about deceit, control and hypocrisy,

go back to sleep.

I have torn to pieces my robe of speech, and have let go of the desire to converse. You who are not naked yet, you can go back to sleep.‖ Rumi

―On the path of Love We are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.‖ Rumi ―Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.‖ Rumi ―Oh you, straying

heart, just come! Oh

you, aching liver, just

come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!‖ Rumi ―Oh sky, without me, do not change, Oh moon, without me, do not shine; Oh earth, without me, do not grow, Oh time, without me, do not go.

Others give you the name of Love, And me the sultan of that love. Higher than such illusions, Oh, you cannot go, without me.‖ Rumi ―When the rose is gone and

the garden faded you will no

longer hear the nightingale's

song. The Beloved is all; the

lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the

lover a dead thing. If love

withholds its strengthening

care, the lover is left like a bird

without care, the lover is

left like a bird without

wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth.‖ Rumi ―If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.‖ Rumi ―There is loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.‖ Rumi ―Oh 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.‖ Rumi 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.‖ ―Your depression is connected to your insolence

and refusal to praise.

Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise—

that man or woman steals from others every day—

is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself.

Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline.

The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising

comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.‖ Rumi