The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around! — Rumi Copy Share Image
In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Flowers open every night across the sky, a breathing peace, and sudden flame catching. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground. — Rumi Copy Share Image
We bury our seeds and wait, Winter blocks the road, Flowers are taken prisoner underground, But then green justice tenders a spear — Rumi Copy Share Image
In the garden I see only your face From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance. — Rumi Copy Share Image
A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in… — Rumi Copy Share Image
True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home. While you look for trinkets The treasure house awaits you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and your water too I have come all this… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Even when you tear its petals off one after another, the rose keeps laughing and doesn’t bend in pain. “Why should I… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am… — Rumi Copy Share Image
What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Flowers every night Blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite, At peace am I. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Raise your words & not your voice. It is the rain that grows the flowers, not the thunder. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute. — Rumi Copy Share Image
If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The branch might seem like the fruit's origin: In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit. — 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