“There are no edges to my loving now.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
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Source: Selected Poems of Rumi
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.”
“Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.”
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted”
“As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.”
“Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!”
Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey
“What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.”
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
“I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.”
“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
“I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.”
“I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.”
Source: 'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian
“If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.”
“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”
“There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.”
“This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.”
“Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives.”
“The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.”
“A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.”
Source: Selected poems
Source: Selected poems