And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power… — Rumi Copy Share Image
In our hearts there burns a fire... That burns all veils to their root and foundation When those veils have been burned… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . .… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; / But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun . . . I am the mist of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it… — Rumi Copy Share Image
While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Life s picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose… — 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
You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur. — Rumi Copy Share Image
My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The spirit is so near that you can't see it! But reach for it... don't be a jar, full of water, whose… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The water has a Water that is driving it; The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Don't be fooled by my beauty - the light of my face comes from the candle of my spirit. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things. — 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