You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above… — Rumi Copy Share Image
When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself. — 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 Image
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 Image
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“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 Image
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share Image
