Rumi

"When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it."

"Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation."

"When soul risesInto lipsYou feel the kiss You have wanted"

"If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek."

"Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

"I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star."

"Forget safety.Live where you fear to live.Destroy your reputation.Be notorious."

"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."

"The way you make love is the way God will be with you."

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

"How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire."

"Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love."

"I know you're tired but come, this is the way."

"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?"

"If you are seeking, seek us with joyFor we live in the kingdom of joy.Do not give your heart to anything elseBut to the love of those who are clear joy,Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –Do not go in the direction of darkness –I tell you: suns exist."

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly."

"Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!"

"Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty."

"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."