Why do you stay in prisonwhen the door is so wide open?Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to b...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for th...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lo...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in fron...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI The hurt you embrace becomes joy.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Days of wanting.Let them go by without worrying that they do.Stay where you areinside such a pure, h...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come bac...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI The delight a friend feels when he hears a friends voice bring all that matters. There are those who...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love .
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will ...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Don't look at your form, however ugly or beautiful. Look at love and at the aim of your quest...O yo...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and ...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Silence within silence, no words within blank space, nothing on blank page, less within the void.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in ...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Look at your heart and tongue, one feels but deaf and dumb, the other speaks in words and signs.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI How do the birds make great sky circles... They fall and falling they are given wings.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence ...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was ...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badl...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection?
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Oh Sweet Bitterness!I will soothe you and heal youI will bring you rosesI too have been covered with...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI The lion is most handsome when looking for food
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI You are so weak. Give up to grace.The ocean takes care of each wavetill it gets to shore.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every ...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it.Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,where so...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much h...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI In your light I learn how to love.In your beauty, how to make poems.You dance inside my chest,where ...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI A shadow cannot ignorethe sun that all day creates and movesit.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Liberated from suffering and searchI have tied myself to the skirt of God.If I fly, I look at the su...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your ple...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Look at Love...how it tangleswith the one fallen in love .
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Joy lives concealed in grief.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI The way you make love is the wayGod will be with you.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Oh soul,you worry too much.You have seen your own strength.You have seen your own beauty.You have se...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own bea...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

Pr...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
RUMI JALAL AD'DIN I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the co...
RUMI I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
RUMI Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
RUMI Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
RUMI We are born of love; Love is our mother.
RUMI Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.
RUMI The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to ...
RUMI You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you...
RUMI There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grow...
RUMI This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning...
RUMI When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot i...
RUMI It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come...
RUMI Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the l...
RUMI That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, a...
RUMI If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
RUMI What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastri...
RUMI Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
RUMI Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badl...
RUMI Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
RUMI The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lo...
RUMI The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and ...
RUMI I spent millons of years in the world
of inorganic things
as a star, as a rock...
Then I di...
RUMI I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was ...
RUMI You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your ple...
RUMI The dust of many crumbled cities settles over us like a forgetful doze, but we are older than those ...
RUMI Let the beauty we love be what we do.
RUMI Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much h...
RUMI Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself....
RUMI Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
RUMI Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence ...
RUMI Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every ...
RUMI Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
RUMI Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can...
RUMI However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my ...
RUMI Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy...
RUMI That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
RUMI The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. L...
RUMI May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
RUMI May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
RUMI Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through...
RUMI There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
RUMI You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left ...
RUMI The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
RUMI Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
RUMI Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
RUMI Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in fron...
RUMI Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of...
RUMI I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You...
RUMI Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
RUMI Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.
RUMI This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let...
RUMI And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken...
RUMI You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own ...
RUMI Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inwa...
RUMI Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that...
RUMI The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is b...
RUMI The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kern...
RUMI Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.
RUMI When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
RUMI Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different ...
RUMI Lovers don't finally meet somewhere; they have lived within each other for ages.
RUMI When you see your true beauty, you will be the idol of yourself
RUMI There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be fill...
RUMI Heartsick, heartbroken—To know love is to know pain.What could be more common?Even so, each br...
RUMI Look for the answer inside your question.
RUMI Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.
RUMI Be grateful for whoever comes, because each guest has been sent as a guide from beyond.
RUMI What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
―RUMI The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
RUMI Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.
RUMI The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. -Rumi.
RUMI Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.
RUMI When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

RUMI All the tears which we creatures shed for Him are not tears as many think but pearls....
RUMI دع العاشق في كونه
RUMI إخفِض صوتك : فالزهر يُنبته المطر، لا الرعد
RUMI أنتَ في القيمة أسمى من العَالَمَيْن كليهما
فماذا يم�...
RUMI قلتُ: أشتهي وصلك
قال: ثمن الوصال ما هو إلا روحك
فهت...
RUMI ما تبحث عنه يبحث عنك
RUMI The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
RUMI Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worr...
RUMI كم هم سعداء أولئك الذين يتخلصون من الأغلال التى ترسخ به...
RUMI العشق نبع، فانغمر
RUMI الموسيقى غذاء كل المحبين.
RUMI وضع الله أمامنا سلّمًا علينا أن نتسلقه درجةً إثر درجة RUMI When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Prais...
RUMI You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, bl...
RUMI You're water. We're the millstone.
You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.
You're sp...
RUMI If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
RUMI You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
RUMI Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
W...
RUMI Infinite mercy flows continually
But you're asleep and can't see it.
The sleeper's robe go...
RUMI CUP AND OCEAN

These forms we seem to be are cups floating in an ocean of living conscious...
RUMI ON THE DAY I DIE

On the day I die, when I'm being carried
toward the grave, don't we...
RUMI THE ONE THING YOU MUST DO

There is one thing in this world you must never forget to do. I...
RUMI We watch a sunlight dust dance,
and we try to be that lively,
but nobody knows what musi...
RUMI Words are ways we add up breath, counting stress and syllable with our exacting musical knack that t...
RUMI Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and...
RUMI If you want money more than anything,
you will be bought and sold.

If you have a gre...
RUMI I love this world, even as I hear the great wind of leaving it rising, for there is a grainy taste I...
RUMI We are the the night ocean filled with glints of light. We are the space between the fish and the mo...
RUMI When a bird gets free, it does not go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage.
RUMI Every part of you has a secret language. Your hands and your feet say what you have done. Every need...
RUMI In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, whe...
RUMI Sometimes I Do In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance insid...
RUMI You left ground and sky weeping,
mind and soul full of grief.

No one can take your p...
RUMI every experience will fill with immediacy. Because I love this, I am never bored. Beauty constantly ...
RUMI عشق جان است
عشقِ تو
جان تر

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RUMI The way of love is not
a subtle argument.

The door there
is devastation. RUMI On a day
when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and the world is full of be...
RUMI But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms RUMI Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.
RUMI Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.
RUMI Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
RUMI I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
RUMI You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
RUMI Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of yo...
RUMI Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
RUMI Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.
RUMI Brother, stand the pain.
Escape the poison of your impulses.
The sky will bow to your beau...
RUMI Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
RUMI Heartsick, heartbroken—
To know love is to know pain.
What could be more common?
E...
RUMI The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
RUMI Travel brings power and love back into your life.
RUMI You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals...
RUMI The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
RUMI If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.
RUMI Let silence take you to the core of life.
RUMI Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
RUMI Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
RUMI Drunks fear the police
but the police are drunk too.
RUMI I am merely a guest born in this world, to know the secrets that lie beyond it.
RUMI The cure for pain is in the pain.
RUMI Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
RUMI I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes ca...
AD REINHARDT I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
AD REINHARDT If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest somepl...
AD REINHARDT The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departm...
AD REINHARDT Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
AD REINHARDT Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
AD REINHARDT Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
AD REINHARDT Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and...
AD REINHARDT