The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I am a bird of God's garden and I do not belong to this dusty world For a day or two they… — Rumi Copy Share Image
While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow? — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Your faces are very beautiful, but they are wooden cages. You had better run from me. My words are fire.” — 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
