The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. — Rumi Copy Share Image
You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale?… — 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
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
A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel… — 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
This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at… — 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