Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door -… — Rumi Copy Share Image
How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Looking at my life I see that only Love Has been my soul’s companion From deep inside My soul cries out: Do… — 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
Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake Fortunate the heart that… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace. — 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
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
