To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon. — Rumi Copy Share Image
God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all. — Rumi Copy Share Image
When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying… — Rumi Copy Share Image
In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in… — Rumi Copy Share Image
To Love is to be God. Never will a Lover's chest feel any sorrow. Never will a Lover's robe be touched by… — Rumi Copy Share Image
This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow? — Rumi Copy Share Image
Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty. — Rumi Copy Share Image
This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. — Rumi Copy Share Image
If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying. — Rumi Copy Share Image
They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual? They wonder about Solomon and all his wives. In the body of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no… — Rumi Copy Share Image
My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine… — Rumi Copy Share Image
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made… — 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
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