Jalaluddin Rumi

"Don't turn your head. Keep looking at the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you."

"The cure for pain is in the pain."

"If you desire healing,let yourself fall illlet yourself fall ill."

"Did I Not Say To You Did I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this mirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life?” Even though in anger you depart a hundred thousand years from me, in the end you will come to me, for I am your goal. Did I not say to you, “Be not content with worldly forms, for I am the fashioner of the tabernacle of your contentment?” Did I not say to you, “I am the sea and you are a single fish; go not to dry land, for I am your crystal sea?” Did I not say to you, “ Go not like birds to the snare; come, for I am the power of flight and your wings and feet?” Did I not say to you, “ They will waylay you and make you cold, for I am the fire and warmth and heat of your desire?” Did I not say to you, “ They will implant in you ugly qualities so that you will forget that I am the source of purity to you?” Did I not say to you, “Do not say from what direction the ser- vant’s affairs come into order?” I am the Creator without directions. If you are the lamp of the heart, know where the road is to the house; and if you are godlike of attribute, know that I am your Maser."

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet;to regard this world as invisible,and to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has beento enter this circle of lovers,to see beyond seeing itself,to reach and feel within the breast."

"Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret,and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor,and in the arms of the Sea be secure. Who indeed should be so fortunate?An Ocean wooing a drop!In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once!Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls."

"My Soul is my Guide, for my Soul is of that Abode I will not Speak of the Earthly, I am of the Unknown."

"When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted"

"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."

"Beauty surrounds us."

"Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;For I am like the Moon,you will see me with new face everyday."

"A moment of happiness,you and I sitting on the verandah,apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here,you and I, with the garden's beautyand the birds singing. The stars will be watching us,and we will show themwhat it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together,indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugaras we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon this earth,and in another form in a timeless sweet land."

"Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence."

"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."

"My heart is so smallit's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it"Look," He answered,"your eyes are even smaller,yet they behold the world."

"Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself."

"Last night you left me and sleptyour own deep sleep. Tonight you turnand turn. I say,‘You and I will be togethertill the universe dissolves.’You mumble back things you thought ofwhen you were drunk."

"Two there are, who are never satisfied; The lover of the world and the lover of Knowledge."

"Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a desert plain. For us, there is a passion in the midst of that expanse. The knower who reaches there will prostrate, there is neither Islam nor unbelief, nor any 'where' in that place."

"Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything."