Rumi

Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

I always thought that _x000D_ I was me — but no, _x000D_ I was you _x000D_ and never knew it.

Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being.

Smiles come best from those who weep.

Enough of words. Come to me without a sound.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in Love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds. This was ordained in creation. Only from the heart can you reach the sky: The Rose of Glory can grow only from the heart.

Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal.

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.

You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.

Lamps are different, but light is the same.

We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.

People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.

There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.

If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?