In the words of Rumi:
You are the honoured guest, Do not weep like a beggar For pieces of the world.
I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.
Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.
This is Now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire.
Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.
If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.
There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.
Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.
God put thorns around the Love's door to stop anyone who's not a Lover from entering.
Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.
Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.
There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.
Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.
Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.
There is nothing outside of yourself, look within. Everything you want is there. You are That.
There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.
If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.
This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.
The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.
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.
Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.
God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.
Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony.
Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.
People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.
Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.
Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
The mind says there is nothing beyond the physical world; the HEART says there is, and I've been there many times.
Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.
Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle.
Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.
If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life.
The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.
There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.
Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty.
Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.
Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I.
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