My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
RumiRead
Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony.
Interpretation
Love is a powerful force that brings balance and joy to the universe.
This quote by Rumi suggests that love is not just an emotion but a vital energy that drives the universe and creates harmony. It implies that love is fundamental to our existence and impacts every relationship and interaction, suggesting that all positive outcomes stem from acts of love and connection.
In practice
During a wedding toast to celebrate the couple's love.
My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
The Law of Wonder rules my life at last, _x000D_ ...I burn each second of my life to Love _x000D_ Each second of my life burns out in Love _x000D_ In each leaping second Love lives afresh.
Lovers have heartaches _x000D_ That can't be cured by drugs _x000D_ Or sleep, _x000D_ Or games, _x000D_ But only by seeing their beloved.
Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.
Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God _x000D_ manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of _x000D_ the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and _x000D_ the leaf.
Come on sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me
What most did not understand then was that I was not only married to the man I loved, but I was also married to the movement that I loved.
Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her
Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.
What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.
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