There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. — Rumi Copy Share Image
When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd… — 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
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
