Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
RUMIMove outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
RUMILike a shadow, I am and I am not.
RUMIThe morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.
RUMIListen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.
RUMIYou’ve seen my descent, now watch my rising.
RUMIIf in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
RUMIIs it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
RUMIOut beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
RUMILovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
RUMIGod turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
RUMIYour magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.
RUMIThe lion is most handsome when looking for food.
RUMIThankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
RUMIPoems are rough notations for the music we are.
RUMIThere is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it’s always in motion.
RUMIMy soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
RUMI