“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk to the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring your talky business to an end. Traditional words are just babbling in that presence, and babbling is a substitute for sight. When you sit down beside your beloved, send the chaperones away, the old women who brought you together.” LoveLanguageSilenceVerbality Book:The Essential Rumi Source: The Essential Rumi
“And don’t look for me in a human shape. I am inside your looking. No room for form with love this strong.” LoveFormSpiritualityConnectionPhysicalityCorporeality Book:The Essential Rumi Source: The Essential Rumi
“What was in that candle’s light that opened and consumed me so quickly? Come back, my friend! The form of our love is not a created form. Nothing can help me but that beauty. There was a dawn I remember when my soul heard something from your soul. I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me.” LoveFriendship Book:The Essential Rumi Source: The Essential Rumi