Jalaluddin Rumi

"There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen."

"Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged"

"My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk Iwas."

"Die! Die! Die in this love!If you die in this love,Your soul will be renewed. Die! Die! Don’t fear the death of that which is known If you die to the temporal, You will become timeless."

"Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion."

"And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?"

"I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want that love that will raise the dead. I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. I want that love that is the silence of eternity."

"You were sent to unite people You were not sent to divide people."

"You were sent to unite people You were not been sent to divide people."

"Say I Am You I am dust particles in sunlight. I am the round sun. To the bits of dust I say, Stay. To the sun, Keep moving. I am morning mist, and the breathing of evening. I am wind in the top of a grove, and surf on the cliff. Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,I am also the coral reef they founder on. I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches. Silence, thought, and voice. The musical air coming through a flute,a spark of a stone, a flickering in metal. Both candle and the moth crazy around it. Rose, and the nightingale lost in the fragrance. I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy,the evolutionary intelligence, the lift,and the falling away. What is, and what isn't. You who know Jelaluddin, You the one in all,say who I am. Say I am You."

"The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,but its smoke becomes visible in the end."

"When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off;you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy.…People fancy they are enjoying themselves,but they are really tearing out their wingsfor the sake of an illusion."

"Infinite mercy flows continually But you're asleep and can't see it. The sleeper's robe goes on drinking river water While he frantically hunts mirages in dreams And runs continually here and there shouting,"There'll be water further on, I know!"It's this false thinking that blocks him From the path that leads to himself,By always saying, "Further on!"He's become estranged from "here":Because of a false fantasy He's driven from reality."

"The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle."

"Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe."

"We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences."

"Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?"

"If I could repeat it,people passing by would be enlightened and go free."

"Come to the orchard in Spring. There is light and wine, and sweetheartsin the pomegranate flowers. If you do not come, these do not matter. If you do come, these do not matter."

"There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence."