Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.” — Rumi Copy Share Image
The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful. — 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… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Lovers have heartaches That can't be cured by drugs Or sleep, Or games, But only by seeing their beloved. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Through love the devil becomes an angel. Through love stones become soft as butter. Through love grief is like delight. Through love… — 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
I will be waiting here… For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake! — 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
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't… — 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
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
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. — Rumi Copy Share
“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
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden. — Rumi Copy Share
If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But… — Rumi Copy Share
“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.” — Rumi Copy Share