Poetry Quote by Tara Brach

“Rumi speaks often of the power of silence to take us to what we are looking for. In one poem he says: We search…

— Matthew Fox

“Mother: “Rumi wrote that…roughly…the only thing that will be with you to your grave is your work. Only your work will speak for you…

— Eula Biss

“Rumi tells us that moment we accept what troubles we’ve been given, the door will open.”

— Elizabeth Lesser

“The poet Rumi writes, 'Find the real world, give it endlessly away, grow rich flinging gold to all who ask. Live at the empty…

— Gregory Boyle

“Good poetry, like music or a sweet touch, can doctor us up, be an antidote for an hour or longer, help us to get…

— Daniel Ladinsky

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river of joy within you. "Rumi”

— Rumi

“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.…

— Rumi

.. every single corner and aspect of our lives, every single choice, will be different if we take the invitation of this [Rumi's] poetry…

— Andrew Harvey

“we might as well live life as if -as the poet Rumi put it-everything is rigged in our favor”

— Arianna Huffington

I had never heard of Rumi until Robert Bly handed me this book and he said, ah, “These poems need to be released from…

— Coleman Barks

“When one of us gets lost, is not here, he or she must be inside us. There’s no place like that anywhere in the…

— Rumi

“The poet Rumi says: "How long will we fill our pockets like children with dirt and stones? Let the world go. Holding it, we…

— Sharon Salzberg