Rumi

When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.

There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.

You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that.

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.

And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.

Try something different. Surrender.

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.

I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love. Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars. You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love. Even so, you have always been connected to me. Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest. I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.

Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.

You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.

No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.

This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.