Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“The grief you cry out from draws you toward union. Your pure sadness that wants help is the secret cup.” — Rumi Copy Share Image
For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth. — Rumi Copy Share Image
You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Through love the devil becomes an angel. Through love stones become soft as butter. Through love grief is like delight. Through love… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“A Thirsty Fish I don't get tired of you. Don't grow weary of being compassionate toward me! All this thirst equipment must… — rumi Copy Share Image
“This is how it is to come near you A wave of light builds in the black pupil of the eye. The… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally… — Rumi Copy Share Image
This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at… — Rumi Copy Share Image
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi Copy Share
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten… — Rumi Copy Share
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. — Rumi Copy Share
“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you… — Rumi Copy Share
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden. — Rumi Copy Share
If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But… — Rumi Copy Share
“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.” — Rumi Copy Share
