I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words… — Rumi Copy Share Image
And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous. — Rumi Copy Share Image
This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so… — Rumi Copy Share Image
This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I… — 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
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
