Rumi

LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. _x000D_ Other desires are substitutes _x000D_ for that way of being.

Open your Eyes, for this World is only a Dream.

You are the Soul _x000D_ and the medicine for what wounds the Soul.

Hold on to the reins of Love and don’t be afraid. _x000D_ Hold on to the real behind the false and don’t be _x000D_ afraid.

You don't see your own face, your own beauty _x000D_ Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.......... .

Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.

Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen.

If you look too closely at the form, you miss the Essence.

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder.

Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.

Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.

Don't stray from your Heart's intent.

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.