Rumi

"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"

"I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo nourish you."

"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."

"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."

"The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground."

"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."

"This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say."

"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."

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

"silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation."

"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."

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"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."

"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure."

"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"

"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."

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"

"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."

"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."