The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross. — Rumi Copy Share Image
From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Let yourself be loved, O Beloved, in the One. And from this One move out into the world, carrying within you the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Day and night I guarded the pearl of my soul. Now in this ocean of pearling currents, I’ve lost track of which… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. — Rumi Copy Share Image
You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under,… — 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