Rumi

"You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?"

"When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them."

"Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure."

"What you seek is seeking you."

"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."

"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion."

"If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it."

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

"I am yours.Don't give myself back to me."

"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."

"A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute"

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."

"I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."

"That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful."

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

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

"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd."

"I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns."

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