Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
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
Whatever purifies you is the correct road. - Rumi
Whatever purifies you is the correct road.
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.
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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