Rumi

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.

If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.

Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.

I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.

With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?

You had better run from me. My words are fire.

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

Love is a river. Drink from it.

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.