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“Sadness to me is the happiest time,
When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind.
Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth,
The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Your longing for ME is my message to you,
All your attempts to reach ME,
Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.”
― Rumi

“The same wind that uproots trees
makes the grass shine.

The lordly wind loves the weakness
and the lowness of grasses.
Never brag of being strong.

The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are.
It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves.
It leaves the leaves alone.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Darkness may hide the trees
and the flowers from the eyes
but it cannot hide
love from the soul.”
― Rumi

“I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.”
― Rumi

“That moon which the sky never saw
even in dreams
has risen again”
― Jelalludin Rumi

“You are the drop,and the ocean
you are kindness,you are anger,
you are sweetness,you are poison.
Do not make me more disheartened.

you are the chamber of the sun,
you are the abode of venus,
you are the garden of all hope.
Oh, Beloved, let me enter.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi

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

“Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.”
― Rumi

“Whenever we manage to love without expectations,
calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.”
― Rumi

“When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.”
― Rumi

“Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?”
― Rumi

“Go back,
go back to sleep.

Yes, you are allowed.
You who have no Love in your heart,
you can go back to sleep.

The power of Love
is exclusive to us,
you can go back to sleep.

I have been burnt
by the fire of Love.
You who have no such yearning in your heart,
go back to sleep.

The path of Love,
has seventy-two folds and countless facets.
Your love and religion
is all about deceit, control and hypocrisy,
go back to sleep.

I have torn to pieces my robe of speech,
and have let go of the desire to converse.
You who are not naked yet,
you can go back to sleep.”
― Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi

“As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.”
― Rumi

“If Light Is In Your Heart
You Will Find Your Way Home.”
― Rumi

“I said to the night,
"If you are in love with the moon,
it is because you never stay for long."
The night turned to me and said,
"It is not my fault. I never see the Sun,
how can I know that love is endless?”
― Rumi, Whispers of the Beloved

“And patience flees my heart,
And reason flees my mind.
Oh, how drunk can I get to be,
Without your love's security?”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi

“It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.”
― Rumi

“A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“Now be silent.
Let the One who creates the words speak.
He made the door.
He made the lock.
He also made the key.”
― Rumi

“I went inside my heart
to see how it was.
Something there makes me hear
the whole world weeping.”
― Rumi

“You left ground and sky weeping,
mind and soul full of grief.

No one can take your place in existence,
or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets,
and this sadness I feel has taken from me
the taste of language, so that I cannot say
the flavor of my being apart.”
― Rumi, A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings

“God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.”
― Rumi

“Your depression is connected to your insolence
and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking
on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman
steals from others every day--is a shoplifter!

The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself.
Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline.
The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes.
The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.”
― Rumi

“The middle path is the way to wisdom”
― Rumi

“What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?”
― Rumi

“Doing as others told me, I was Blind.

Coming when others called me, I was Lost.

Then I left everyone, myself as well.

Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.”
― Rumi

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will never lead you astray.”
― Rumi