Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and straight forward. Having died to self interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us Being; without cause give it back again. Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion. Religion seeks grace and favor, but those who gamble these away are God's favorites, for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the door of gain and loss.
Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him. - Rumi
Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.
- Rumi
Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent. - Rumi
Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent.
Whatever purifies you is the correct road. - Rumi
Whatever purifies you is the correct road.
Smiles come best from those who weep. - Rumi
Smiles come best from those who weep.
Appear as you are, or be as you appear. - Rumi
Appear as you are, or be as you appear.
Let yourself become living poetry. - Rumi
Let yourself become living poetry.
Listen to presences inside poems. - Rumi
Listen to presences inside poems.
Love cannot be described. It must be tasted. - Rumi
Love cannot be described. It must be tasted.
The rule that covers everything is: how you are with others, expect that back. - Rumi
The rule that covers everything is: how you are with others, expect that back.
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