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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.” ―
“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.”
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ―
Know the lift of your heel, the glide of your foot. Become familiar with the way you purse your lips then let them part, just the slightest bit, when I lean in to your space and kiss you. I want to know the joy of how you whisper "more” ― Rumi
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.” ― Rumi
“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.” ― Rumi
“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.” ― Rumi
“You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you” ― Rumi
“My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.” ― Rumi
“Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.” ― Rumi
“You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion” ― Rumi
“She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.” ― Rumi
“I am yours. Don't give myself back to me.” ― Rumi
“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.” ― Rumi
“This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.” ― Rumi
“At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.” ― Rumi
“The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings.” ― Rumi
“In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances” ― Rumi
Rumi
“In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.” ― Rumi
“For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.” ― Rumi
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.” ― Rumi
You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.” ― Rumi
“When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted” ― Rumi
“I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.” ― Rumi
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. From Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks
When the sweet glance of my true love caught my eyes, Like alchemy, it transformed my copper-like soul. I searched for Him with a thousand hands, He stretched out His arms and clutched my feet.
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. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense.
