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
If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life. — 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
Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing! — Rumi Copy Share Image
The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world. — 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
