Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded._x000D_ _x000D_ Someone sober will worry about events going badly._x000D_ _x000D_ Let the lover be.

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow_x000D_ _x000D_ of your love, that somehow contains_x000D_ _x000D_ the entire universe.

I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.

Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors,_x000D_ _x000D_ I want burning, burning, burning.

Your way begins at the other side._x000D_ _x000D_ Become the sky._x000D_ _x000D_ Take an axe to the prison wall._x000D_ _x000D_ Escape._x000D_ _x000D_ Walk out like someone suddenly born into color._x000D_ _x000D_ Do it now.

Very high, very grand, and very wise is the ocean of God, the Water of Life. You went after the form and were lead astray. How can you see it? You abandoned the truth. Sometimes it is named "tree," sometimes "sun," sometimes "ocean," sometimes "cloud," one thing from which scores of discoveries arise, its slightest definition an everlasting life.

Come out of the circle of time_x000D_ _x000D_ And into the circle of love.

When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

Look for the answer inside your question.

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.

Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.

I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved

I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.

When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.