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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...
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20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of wha...
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W.B. YEATS Buddha had said:
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Until life humbles us
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KAMAND KOJOURI Horses At Midnight Without A Moon"
Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods.
Our dre...
JACK GILBERT The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews
Not to be born is the best for man
T...
W.H. AUDEN How small life is here
and how big nothingness.
The sky, tired of light,
has given ev...
ROBERT WALSER I AM CONVINCED
I am convinced
That if all mankind
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A memory remains just a tiny spark.
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We find delight in the most loathsome things;<...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE American Wedding
In america,
I place my ring
on your cock
where it belon...
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If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us
JOHN LENNON I feel in every girl there is a spirit,
a wild pixie,
that if let go,
would run and d...
ATTICUS they do not kiss
but they both want to
instead their feet touch and so do their arms
...
BRIGID LOWRY We are broken. Our ways are apart.
Still we laugh together and taunt.
We fight and get hur...
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Even as the strings of...
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& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the ...
BRIAN ANDREAS A Litany for Survival
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You shall be together when the w...
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let it rather be a moving sea between the shore...
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To see never-seen colors and shapes,
To try to understand th...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC So you want to know all about me. Who
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What chance meeting of brush and canvas painte...
ELLEN HOPKINS What can I tell you
about the alchemy of twins?
Twins are
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Lightly
Over me.
He takes one of my outstretched hands.
Draws i...
STASIA WARD KEHOE Nobody can claim the name of Pedro,
nobody is Rosa or María,
all of us are dust or sand,<...
PABLO NERUDA Shall we dance,friend of my heart?"
We shall, little one.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us;
The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in,
The ...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL I feel afraid and I call your name
I love your voice and your dance insane
I hear your word...
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Nobody is going to come and save you. You've g...
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How can we know the dancer from the dance?
W.B. YEATS and when love came to us twice
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we decided to never love again
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On our own, we conclude:
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w...
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Each day is born with a sunrise
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and...
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We wander on, shoulder to shoulder
Already the sun is go...
ANNA AKHMATOVA When your soul and mine
have left our bodies and we are
burried alongside each other,
OMAR KHAYYáM Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak.
Somebody...
CRESSIDA COWELL Dance like there's nobody watching
Love like you'll never get hurt
Sing like there's nobody l...
WILLIAM W. PURKEY If we have never sought, we seek Thee now;
Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars; EDWARD SHILLITO Music That Brings, The Meaning Of our Life.
Music That Shows, The Light From Our Soul.
SAUMYA MOHANTY There is not enough air in the room but you are breathing.
There is nobody here but you are hel...
JEANETTE LEBLANC I think that's what we all want, in the end.
To know that we left footprints when we passed by,...
MIKE A. LANCASTER Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.'
'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of ot...
VIKRAM CHANDRA I close my eyes
Only for a moment,
then the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass be...
KANSAS (BAND) Say I Am You
I am dust particles in sunlight.
I am the round sun.
To the ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg.
I Name you Calvin.
I Name you Mr. Jenkins.
I Nam...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE So what if nobody came?
I’ll have all the ice cream and tea,
And I’ll laugh with mys...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
a space
and even ...
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and watch to see.
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though the language...
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Think each in each, immediately wise;
Learn all we lac...
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As we were born and introduced into this world,
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She touches me as if I were herself, her own.
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Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body...
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On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain an...
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May you trust God that you are exactly where you are me...
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The night we all play,
Trick or treat,
We won't go away.
Be we g...
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Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering
Drowning li...
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What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and star...
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We have not even to risk the adventure alone
for the heroes of ...
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We dare not talk of the fire, for ...
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My father knows the proper way
The nation should be run;
He tells us childr...
EDGAR A. GUEST ...and when we die
we die alone
I cry, I cry alone
Like a piece of stone
I am...
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HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI To Alef, the letter
that begins the alphabets
of both Arabic and Hebrew-
two Semitic ...
IBTISAM BARAKAT Something about you caught me by surprise
Though I always knew you’d be my demise.
R.S. GREY It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers."...
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Too much change is re...
LUCY H. PEARCE A BOAT beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July —
LEWIS CARROLL Beyond the earth,
beyond the farthest skies
I try to find Heaven and Hell.
Then I hea...
OMAR KHAYYáM Show me slowly what I only
know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
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I looked at her not knowing how t...
JULIE METZ I own a crevice stuffed with moss
and a couch of lemming fur;
I sit and listen to the musi...
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Dear Mr. Schneider,
I attended your elementary
Schoo...
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Some things only become visible to us when they unde...
VERA NAZARIAN If we can forgive what has been done to us . . .
If we can forgive what we've done to oth...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,
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Would ...
LANGSTON HUGHES In your hands
The dog, the donkey, surely they know
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Who would ...
MARY OLIVER I write poetry, worry, smile,
laugh
sleep
continue for a while
just like most of...
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What is it inside us that keeps erasing itself
When...
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The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a vi...
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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.
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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...
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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 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
"مولوی
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 As for your vision,
& what is or isn't written,
Stay faithful until it's fateful.
SUHAIB RUMI Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the
weeds? Spend more time...
LALUDDIN RUMI A Lion that hunts for survival in the jungle does not envy the one being fed in a zoo
SUHAIB RUMI Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fi...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can f...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Say I Am You
I am dust particles in sunlight.
I am the round sun.
To the ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
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