Rumi

Let yourself be loved, O Beloved, in the One. And from this One move out into the world, carrying within you the great potent energies of life to green your world, to create planets, suns, stars, stones, waves, oceans, to create new forms of life and expression - whether a friendship, a feeling or a new form of vocation.

We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.

This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.

O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.

THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor, or a fire we can’t see, but how does saying that push us through the top of the head into the light above the head? Love is not an iron pot, so this boiling energy won’t help. Soul, heart, self. Beyond and within those is one saying, How long before I’m free of this torture!

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, _x000D_ and your face will come to shine like a sun, _x000D_ and everyone who sees it will _x000D_ be made glad and peaceful.

If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.

Tonight the moon kisses the stars. _x000D_ O beloved,be like that to me!

In the garden _x000D_ I see only your face _x000D_ From trees and blossoms _x000D_ I inhale only your fragrance.

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

What strikes the oyster shell _x000D_ doesn't damage the pearl.

Love is fearless in the midst _x000D_ of the sea of fear.

Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.

You know what love is? _x000D_ It is all kindness, generosity.

You try to be faithful And sometimes you're cruel. You are mine. Then, you leave. Without you, I can't cope. And when you take the lead, I become your footstep. Your absence leaves a void. Without you, I can't cope. You have disturbed my sleep, You have wrecked my image. You have set me apart. Without you, I can't cope.

If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.

If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide.

Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.

Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.