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“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”
-- Rumi
#Hurt #Blessing #Wings
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“And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.”
-- Rumi
#Choices #Desire #Devil
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“I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'”
-- Rumi
#Soul #Ignorant #Dawn
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“If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.”
-- Rumi
#Heart #Mirrors #Rust
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“Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.”
-- Rumi
#Heart #Giving #Spirit
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“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”
-- Rumi
#Beautiful #Spiritual #Wisdom
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“When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”
-- Rumi
#Inspirational #Blow #Dust
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“Out 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.”
-- Rumi
#Love #Friendship #Marriage
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“Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.”
-- Rumi
#Inspirational #Faith #Fall
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“Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.”
-- Rumi
#Spiritual #Pain #Treasure
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“Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
-- Rumi
#Spiritual #Two #World
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“If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.”
-- Rumi
#God #Spiritual #Water
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“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.”
-- Rumi
#Spiritual #Doors #Insanity
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“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
-- Rumi
#Spiritual #Stars #Dust
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“Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.”
-- Rumi
#Flow #Down And #Rings
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“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
-- Rumi
#Love #Heartbreak #Wedding
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“Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?”
-- Rumi
#Love Is
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“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”
-- Rumi
#Running #Anger #Night
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“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
-- Rumi
#Inspirational #Spiritual #Fear
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“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”
-- Rumi
#Change #Success #Hands
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“I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.”
-- Rumi
#Spiritual #Home #Way
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“silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”
-- Rumi
#Inspirational #Spiritual #Past
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“Beauty surrounds us.”
-- Rumi
#Surround
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“Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.”
-- Rumi
#Life #Pain #Medicine
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“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
-- Rumi
#Inspirational #Spiritual #Sadness
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“The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.”
-- Rumi
#Generosity #Trying #Grows
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“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
-- Rumi
#Integrity #Moving #Positivity
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“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
-- Rumi
#Inspirational #Positive #Health
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“If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.”
-- Rumi
#Spiritual #Garden #Feet
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“But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.”
-- Rumi
#Spiritual #Blessing #Being Sad