Friday, February 15, 2013

rumi

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” 

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” 

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” 

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” 

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” 

“Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.” 


“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.” 


“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” 

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” 

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” 

“And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens with love like that.
It lights up the sky.” 


“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.” 


“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?” 



“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
― Rumi
“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
― Rumi
“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
― Rumi
“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
― Rumi
“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
― Rumi
“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
― RumiWords of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi
“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
― Rumi
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
― Rumi
“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
― Rumi
“Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?”
― RumiThe Essential Rumi
“Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.”
― Rumi
“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”
― Rumi
“People want you to be happy.
Don't keep serving them your pain!

If you could untie your wings
and free your soul of jealousy,

you and everyone around you
would fly up like doves.”
― Rumi
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
― Rumi
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
― Rumi
“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”
― Rumi
“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
― Rumi
“Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
― Rumiمثنوی معنوی
“I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside.”
― Rumi
“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
― Rumi
“But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.”
― Rumi
“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
― Rumi
“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.”
― Rumi
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi
“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.”
― Rumi
“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”
― Rumi

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