All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains… — Rumi Copy Share Image
From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try… — Rumi Copy Share Image
THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. — Rumi Copy Share Image
What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch… — Rumi Copy Share Image
This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I said, O Love, tell me this: Does the Lord know you are treating me this way? Love said to me, yes… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old… — 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
The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around! — Rumi Copy Share Image
Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly. Patience with small details makes perfect a… — 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
