“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
— Rumi
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“What you seek is seeking you.”
“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
“This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.”
“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?”
“You’ve seen my descent, now watch my rising.”
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
“Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.”
“Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.”
“When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.”
“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
“Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”
“When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home.”
“I am not this hair. I am not this skin. I am the soul that lives within.”
“The cure for pain is in the pain.”
“I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.”
“Don’t be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don’t forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.”
“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
“Look for the answer inside your question.”
“Open your Eyes, for this World is only a Dream.”
“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”
“Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious.”
“To Love is to reach God.”
“I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.”
“Move, but don’t move the way fear makes you move.”
“Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.”
“In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.”
“Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.”
“Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset.”
“Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love.”
“In your light I learn how to love.”
“All is known in the sacredness of silence.”
“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”
“Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”
“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
“Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.”
“Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?”
“Be silent, Only the Hand of God Can remove The burdens of your heart.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”
“Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.”
“The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.”
“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.”
“At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.”
“The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.”
“O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all...”
“If you love someone, you are always joined with them – in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.”
“Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!”
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
“A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.”
“The middle path is the way to wisdom.”
“My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.”
“Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.”
“The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.”
“If Your Eyes Are Opened, You’ll See The Things Worth Seeing.”
“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.”
“People of the world don’t look at themselves, and so they blame one another.”
“Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind – Now that’s a blessing.”
“Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.”
“We are the mirror – As well as the face in it.”
“My soul is my guide, for my soul is of that abode. I will not speak of the earthly. I am of the unknown.”
“We are born of love. Love is our mother.”
“There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.”
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
“Because I cannot sleep I make music in the night.”
“There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.”
“I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”
“Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn and take a seat in another room. Soul-makers find each other’s company.”
“Nothing can nourish the SOUL but LIGHT.”
“That’s how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.”
“Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don’t really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?”
“Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.”
“I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.”
“Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave ’til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”
“Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love’s glory is not a small thing.”
“Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms.”
“You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance.”
“Open your arms if you want the Beloved’s embrace.”
“Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself.”
“You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?”
“Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!”
“All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!”
“I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me. If I Cry About It, Or If I Don’t, The Fire Is At Work, Night And Day.”
“If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.”
“At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.”
“There’s no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child’s play.”
“I am so mad with love that mad men say to me – be still!”
“Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.”
“Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up as if you just heard something brilliant.”
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