How far is the light of the moon from the moon? How far is the taste of candy from the lip? — Rumi Copy Share Image
To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from… — Rumi Copy Share Image
In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your… — 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
