We watch a sunlight dust dance,
and we try to be that lively,
but nobody knows what music those particles hear.

Each of us has a secret companion musician to dance to.
Unique rhythmic play, a motion in the street we alone know and hear.


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Fall, And He'...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, bl...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Prais...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen!
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished??
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do, and that
...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
For without you, I swear, the town
Has become like a prison to me.
Distraction and the mou...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
This is how I would die
into the love I have for you:
As pieces of cloud
dissolve ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Love calls - everywhere and always.
We're sky bound.
Are you coming?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this wor...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorn...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions
wit...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror refle...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.

The power of love came into me,
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You try to be faithful
And sometimes you're cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Wit...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
What you seek is seeking you.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way o...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have co...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind t...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
در غم ما روزها بی گاه شد
روزها با سوزها همراه شد
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
For the thirst to possess your love,
Is worth my blood a hundred times.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Woman is the light of God.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Soul, if you want to learn secrets,

your heart must forget about
shame
 and dignity....
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The cure for pain is in the pain.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no rejection,

I choose to l...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?

Look at yo...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI