“You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.” IfsGivingKindFireTasteGiving UpWineDrunkFirewood Author:Rumi
“Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.” WorldHardInvisibleVisible Author:Rumi
“Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.” LooksSometimesLightSunJourneyStrangeGoes OnOceanCrescent Author:Rumi
“Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.” MindGivenPureWineCupsDirty Author:Rumi
“There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should.” IfsShouldSpiritDrinkSatanEmptinessStomachSweetnessFood And Drink Author:Rumi
“No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.” KnowsSoulFacesWake UpDawnVeilsBreeze Author:Rumi
“He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.” LoveMeditationLetters Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains...” RunningLove IsMountainClothesSchemesMadmen Author:Rumi
“You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper!” WalkingThousandOceanEdgesDeeperNakedDryRobesDeeper Love Author:Rumi
“What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.” MeanDoeBodyAsksEgoEatingDrinkingSatisfactionHeavyTornPatchesCloaksSewingEating And Drinking Author:Rumi
