Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people — Rumi Copy Share Image
Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The Silk Worm I stood before a silk worm one day. And that night my heart said to me, "I can do… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming… — Rumi Copy Share Image
For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I… — Rumi Copy Share Image
People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths. — Rumi Copy Share Image
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing. — Rumi Copy Share Image
When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry… — Rumi Copy Share Image
This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it. — Rumi Copy Share Image
It is as if a king had sent you to a country to carry out one special, specific task. You go to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom… — 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
