“I felt I was drowning in my negativity. There was no hope of room for patience and no means of escape, no way to either repent or rebel I felt I could not undo the lock.” — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“God continually turns you from one state of feeling to another, revealing truth by means of opposites.... So that you may have the two wings of fear and hope; for the bird with one wing is unable to fly....” — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“O Lord, we’ve erred!’* He sighed with heart aflame, ‘We lost the way as soon as darkness came!’ So destiny can block the sun’s… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“Don't go off sightseeing. The real journey is right here. The great excursion starts from exactly where you are. You are the world. You… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“Chefs and surgeons, historians, athletes, all so full of wonder, lovingly careful, and living right at the point of contact, the nailhead of attention… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“It is time for us to join the line of your madmen all chained together. Time to be totally free, and estranged. Time to… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“God's Shams of Tabriz says to the heart's bud, "If your eyes are opened, you'll see the things worth seeing.” — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you get frightened as a camel. Sometimes you get stuck in the mud like a hunted prey. O young fool, how long will… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.” — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“The intellect is luminous and seeks justice so why does the dark ego prevail over it? Because the ego is at home in the… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“Sit near someone who has had the experience. Sit under a tree with new blossoms. Walking the section of the market where chemists sell… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
