A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand. — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest… — Rumi Copy Share Image
THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is… — Rumi Copy Share Image
How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver… — 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 pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then… — 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
