The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand. — Rumi Copy Share Image
You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. — 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 of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does… — Rumi Copy Share Image
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling… — 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
Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being. — Rumi Copy Share Image
My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way. — 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
