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Rumi Quotes:

Rumi quotes

Ocupation: Poet

Life: September 30, 1207 - December 17, 1273

Birthday: September 30

Death: December 17

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You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it.

Topics: Earth, Passing, Passings, Passing Through

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Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

Topics: Intelligent, Intelligence, Wool, Intelligent Person

Quotation Rumi Listen with ears of tolerance See through the eyes of Quotes

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

Topics: Snow, Melting, Melting Snow, Inspirational Sufi, Sufi Love

Quotation Rumi Your task is not to seek for love but merely Quotes

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

Topics: Wonder

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Life, Religion And Love

Swim out of your little pond.

Topics: Dream, Swim, Littles

It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

Topics: May, Walks

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

Topics: Lying, Gold, World

Are you searching for your soul? Then come out of your own prison.

Topics: Soul, Prison, Your Soul

The heart is your student, for love is the only way we learn.

Topics: Heart, Love Is, Way

Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.

Topics: Pain, Yoga, Fate

You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

Topics: Ocean, Heart, Ideas, Look At Yourself, Remember Me

Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

Topics: Home, Funeral, Headstone, Funeral Memorial, Funerals And Death

Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less.

Topics: Peaceful, Concerned

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Topics: Sympathy, Death, Goodbye, Souls In Love, Inspirational Sufi

I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.

Topics: Hair, Soul, Skins

Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

Topics: Light, Turns

If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul.

Topics: Soul, Selfishness, Your Soul

Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I'll meet you there

Topics: Fields

Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care!

Topics: Inspirational, Hurt, Care

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

Topics: Spiritual, Wisdom, Kindness, Kindness And Compassion, Loving Kindness

People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.

Topics: Inspirational, People, World, Sufi

Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.

Topics: Lord

When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.

Topics: Complaining, Speak, Temper, Bad Temper

I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

Topics: Flower, Lips, I Smile, Jurists, Smile On My Face

Be suspicious of what you want.

Topics: Inspirational, Want, What You Want, Sufi

Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.

Topics: Body, Garments, Cloaks

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Spiritual Wisdom, Inspirational Sufi

Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.

Topics: Relief, Longing, Birdsong, Ecstatic

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

Topics: Positive, Perfect, Knees, Islamic Wisdom, Sufi Wisdom

Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.

Topics: Pain, One Day, Cures

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Topics: Motivational, Spiritual, Flower, Inspirational Sufi, Sufi Love

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

Topics: Wisdom, Islamic, Friendless

I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.

Topics: Iron, Enormous, Magnet, Resisting

This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, 'Be more silent.' Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

Topics: Running, Moving, Believe, Moment Of Silence, Old Life

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

Topics: Dying, Looks, West, Inspirational Death, Life After Death

We are born of love. Love is our mother.

Topics: Mother, Best Love, Love Is

Believe in love's infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love is life

Topics: Love, Believe, Journey, Love Is Life

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

Topics: Thieves, Action, Values

Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.

Topics: Action, Repent

Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.

Topics: Self, Grace, Action, Power And Control, Self Mastery

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

Topics: Way, Tomorrow, Action

On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Topics: Character, Envy, Way

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

Topics: Courage, Ease, Foundation

It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.

Topics: Courage, Kindness, Order

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

Topics: Courage, Discipline, Gold, Dross, Boiling

Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

Topics: Friends, Practice, Support, Sacred Texts

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

Topics: Animal, Desire, Reason

Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

Topics: Fire, Desire, Paradise

My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit.

Topics: Sea, Meditation, Ships

Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.

Topics: Communication, Son, Arrows

Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.

Topics: Communication, Order, Listening

Submit to love without thinking

Topics: Thinking, Submit

When love itself comes to kiss you, don't hold back!

Topics: Kissing

Speak with the language of love.

Topics: Language, Speak, Language Of Love

If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.

Topics: Love, Dark, House, Love Will Find A Way

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

Topics: Giving, Before Death, Given

Enough of words. Come to me without a sound.

Topics: Sound, Enough

We often need to be refreshed.

Topics: Needs

Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.

Topics: Yesterday, Today, Gone

Smiles come best from those who weep.

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

Topics: Spiritual, Fire, Cooks

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring your talky business to an end Traditional words are just babbling in that presence, and babbling is a substitute for sight.

Topics: Ocean, Sight, Rivers

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

Topics: Stars, Symphony, Tunes

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.

Topics: Breathing, Way, Infinity, Shameful, Prana

I always thought that I was me — but no, I was you and never knew it.

Topics: Sufi Love, Sufi Mystic

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky

Topics: Sky, Secret, Sufi Love, Morning Sky, Pure Love

Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

Topics: Shadow, Sun, Reason

I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

Topics: Pain, Heart, Splits, Pain Of Separation

Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

Topics: Wisdom, Eye

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

Topics: Dancing, Inward

What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.

Topics: Soul, Persons, Sprouts

The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.

Topics: Eye, Heart, Light

There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.

Topics: Buckets, Empty, Fountain

O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.

Topics: Soul, Faults, Saws

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.

Topics: Essence, Roots, World, Sweet Words, Branching Out

There is no way into Presence except through a love exchange.

Topics: Way

How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.

Topics: Past, Light, Shining

This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.

Topics: Sleep, Night, Long

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

Topics: Winter, Garden, Thinking

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

Topics: Fire, Goal, Veils

Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.

Topics: Dancing, Soul, Shadow, Inspirational Sufi, Life Love And Happiness

Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?

Topics: Light, Moments

Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting.

Topics: Tired, Wings, Feelings

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

Topics: Asking, Answers, Taste

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.

Topics: Giving Up, Wine, Fire, Firewood

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

Topics: World, Invisible

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.

Topics: Ocean, Journey, Light, Crescent

There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should....

Topics: Emptiness, Spirit, Satan

Your earthly lover can be charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousand doors.

Topics: Doors, Faithful, Finals

You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent, it will be as if you have done nothing.

Topics: Done, Hundred, Accomplish

Embark on the journey of LOVE. It takes you from yourself to yourself.

Topics: Journey, Love Journey

I was you and never knew it.

The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.

Topics: Essence, Kingdoms, Wealth

Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.

Topics: Sadness, Yesterday, Water, Flowing Water, Yesterday Is Gone

A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you.

Topics: Flow, Wealth, Imagine, Secluded

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

Topics: Beautiful, Heart, Earth, Beautiful Places

Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious

Topics: Tears, Faces, Mask

It is Love that holds everything together, and it is the everything also.

Topics: Together

The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

Topics: Soul, Desire, Ends

Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence.

Topics: Song, Watches, Existence

The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic.

Topics: Looks, Body, Spirit

We are the mirror, as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. We are pain and what cures pain. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. Soul of the world, no life, nor world remain, no beautiful women and men longing. Only this ancient love circling the holy black stone of nothing. Where the lover is the loved, the horizon and everything within it.

Topics: Beautiful, Sweet, Pain

Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are.

Topics: Love Is, People, Common

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

Topics: Journey, Light, Rubies

Hear from the heart wordless mysteries.

Topics: Heart, Mystery

Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.

Topics: Love Is, Infinite, Eternity

If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.

Topics: Sleep, Night, Ego, Spiritual Growth

No more holding back. Be reckless. Tell your Love to everybody.

Topics: Reckless, Holding Back

I am merely a guest, born in this world to know the secrets that lie beyond it.

Topics: Lying, Secret, World

Love is nothing other than finding the truth.

Topics: Love Is, Finding Out The Truth, Findings

This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.

Topics: Silence, Use, Overcoming

LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being.

Topics: Desire, Way, Lovers

LOVE will lay a carpet of treasures under your feet.

Topics: Feet, Treasure, Carpet

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.

Topics: Gratitude, Wine, Drunk

You must ask for what you really want.

Topics: Want

Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent.

Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.

Topics: Tangled, Paradise, Littles

I can heal a broken heart with a smile.

Topics: Heart, Broken, Heal A Broken Heart

Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.

Topics: Grace, Forgiving

Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again.

Topics: Yesterday, Today, Gone, Yesterday Is Gone

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all...

Topics: Love Is, Deep Love, Sufi Mystic

Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.

Topics: Song, Heart, Silence, Triumphant

Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.

Topics: Heart, Tongue, Lips

Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.

Topics: Ego, Enemy, Nafs

Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness.

Topics: Kindness, Heart, Soul, Goodwill, Carefree

In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.

Topics: This Life, Renovation, Demolition

My soul Is Naked. It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love.

Topics: Soul, Naked, Garments, Transparent

If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.

Topics: Fall, Pits

Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

Topics: Fire, People, Ends

Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!

Topics: Wisdom, Looks, Pearls

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

Topics: Wisdom, Path, Madness, Path Of Love

A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.

Topics: His Love, Lovers, Lost

Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.

Topics: Medicine, Principles, Firsts

The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.

Topics: Laughter, Rain, Unseen, Seen And Unseen

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

Topics: Sensual, Tears, Ulcers, Old Buildings

Life s picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment.

Topics: Change, World, Spirit

There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.

Topics: Self, Lust, Desire

A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.

Topics: Love, Lying, Heart

Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.

Topics: Love, Wings, Heaven

Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.

Topics: Return, Income, Spirituality, Expenditures

The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.

Topics: Time, Eye, Essence

Remember God so much that you are forgotten.

Topics: Self, Remember, Forgotten

Trust means you're ready to risk what you currently have.

Topics: Trust, Mean, Risk

Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.

Topics: Jars, Saint, Awareness

Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow.

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Positive

Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you?

Topics: Wisdom, Islamic, Able

By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut, but the door of repentance is never closed. Come seize the opportunity: the door is open; carry your baggage there at once.

Topics: Wisdom, Children, Islamic

Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is borne along by his own power and of his own volition. Every movement made by the drowned man - indeed, every act and word that issue from him - comes from the water, not from him... The saints are like this. They have died before death.

Topics: Wisdom, Islamic, Men

Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but you let fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved, take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything that takes me from you.

Topics: Wisdom, Islamic, Heart, Two Worlds

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!

Topics: Beauty, Design, Moments

Criticism polishes my mirror.

Topics: Mirrors, Criticism, Polish

Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.

Topics: Memories, Hangover, Sober, Drunkenness

There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

Topics: Integrity, Moving, Wind, Lust And Greed, True Nature

The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

Topics: Heart, Passion, Agony

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

Topics: Spiritual, Heart, Roots, Sufi Mystic, Pain And Sorrow

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

Topics: Spiritual, Clouds, Would Be

Only the soul knows what love is.

Topics: Love Is, Soul

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

Topics: Motivation, Ocean, Heart, Self Discovery

Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.

Topics: Spiritual, Eye, Way, Sufi Mystic

How did you get here? Close your eyes . . . and surrender!

Topics: Eye, Surrender

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Spiritual, Inspirational Sufi, Crawling

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.

Topics: Heart, May, Sweetness, Sufi Mystic

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love and being a Lover. The way of our prophets is the way of Truth. If you want to live, die in Love; die in Love if you want to remain alive.

Topics: Love, Expression, Alive, Sufi Love, Expressions Of Love

My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.

Topics: Heart, Thinking, Compassion, Bad Thoughts, Dear Heart

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.

Topics: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live Life To Its Fullest, Souls In Love

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

Topics: Spiritual, Desire, Thousand

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

Topics: Broken Heart, Grief, Sky

The Lover is ever drunk with Love. He is mad. She is free. He sings with delight. She dances in ecstasy. Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything. But once we get drunk on that Love Whatever will be, will be.

Topics: Mad, Worry, Drunk

You transform all those who are touched by You.

There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?

Topics: Sweet, Healing, Water

Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

Topics: Rain, Clouds, Forget, Don't Be Sad

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

Topics: Inspirational, Spiritual, Travel, Sufi Love

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.

Topics: Love, Letting Go, Spiritual

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

Topics: Heart

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Topics: Inspiring, Freedom, Silence

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

Topics: Spiritual, Wherever You Are, Inspirational Sufi, Sufi Love, Sufi

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

Topics: Truth, Stories, Disease

Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.

Topics: Love, Protect, Protect Yourself

Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen.

Topics: Perfection, Speechless

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

Topics: Spiritual, Wisdom, Reflection, So Lucky

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

Topics: First Love, Romantic Love, Stories, Soulmate Love, Soulmates And Love

You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

Topics: Dream, Encouragement, Bad Ass, Learn To Fly, Crawling

Love is a river. Drink from it.

Topics: Love, Spiritual, Nature

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

Topics: Envy, Inward, Attention

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Topics: Stars, Yoga, Book, Inspirational Yoga, Yoga Inspiration

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Topics: Love, Life, Inspiring, Bewilderment, Wise Man Once Said

There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.

Topics: Love, Marriage, Path

Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships.

Topics: Love Is, Hardship, Guides

Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your Heart from the darkness of hate

Topics: Hate, Heart, People

Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.

Topics: Be Patient, Patient, Possibility

Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . .

Topics: Heart, Passion, Keys, Passion And Desire, Remove

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

Topics: Encouragement, Soul, Secret

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Topics: Love, Inspirational, Happiness, Meant To Be Together, Marriage And Love Inspirational

You have Within you more love than you could ever understand.

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

Topics: Compassion, Rose, Thorns

What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.

Topics: Drinking, Mean, Ego, Sewing

I come to YOU without ME, come to ME without YOU.

Topics: Without You

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

Topics: Lamps, Ladders, Lifeboats

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

Topics: Heart, Eye, Soul

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