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
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.
I hate the day, because it lendeth light_x000D_ _x000D_ To see all things, but not my love to see.
But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.
Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.
We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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