You are my shams.

The love religion is all that is written here.

— Rumi

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

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

There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.

— Rumi

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

— Rumi

“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

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

— Rumi

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

— Rumi

Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.

— Rumi

I have no name for what circles so perfectly.

— Rumi

What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.

— Rumi

We are born of love. Love is our mother.

— Rumi

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

— Rumi

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

“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.”

— Rumi