“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Rumi9
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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”9 likes
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”3 likes
“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.”3 likes
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
“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.”
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
“This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
“I choose to love you in silence… For in silence I find no rejection, I choose to love you in loneliness… For in loneliness no one owns you but me, I choose to adore you from a distance… For distance will shield me from pain, I choose to kiss you in the wind… For the wind is gentler than my lips, I choose to hold you in my dreams… For in my dreams, you have no end.”
“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.”
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
“You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”
“silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”
“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”
“Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.”
“May these vows and this marriage be blessed.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
“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.”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.”
“Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.”
“This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.”
“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
“Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.”
“A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.”
“The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.”
“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.”
“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”
“Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.”
“You think of yourself as a citizen of the universe. You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out of this dust you have created a personal image, and have forgotten about the essence of your true origin”
“Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”
“Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?”
“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!”
“Love will find its way through all languages on its own.”
“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
“What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.”
“You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.”
“There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.”
“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.”
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”