More Quotes by Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
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.
What you seek is seeking you.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
