When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean. — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings. — Rumi Copy Share Image
For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid… — Rumi Copy Share Image
To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets. — Rumi Copy Share Image
You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper… — Rumi Copy Share Image
IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it. — Rumi Copy Share Image
You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave… — Rumi Copy Share Image
With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Let yourself be loved, O Beloved, in the One. And from this One move out into the world, carrying within you the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred… — 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
