You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that? — Rumi Copy Share Image
For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts. — Rumi Copy Share Image
To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall… — 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
The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility. where… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be… — 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
