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“This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty.

Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.

Live in silence.”
― Rumi, Rumi: Poems

“لا يعرف الإنسان الحقيقة إلا متأخرا”
― بهاء طاهر , لم أعرف أن الطواويس تطير

“جاءك الفرح فجأة ، وقد علمتك الأيام أن تحذر الفرح، لأن خيانته قاسية.”
― محمود درويش, يوميات الحزن العادي

“لا بد من خيال واسع في عالم ضيق..”
― حسين البرغوثي, الضوء الأزرق

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

“Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“the soul has been given it's own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.”
― Rumi, Rumi: Poems

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
― Rumi

“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”
― Rumi

“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
― Rumi

“You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”
― Rumi

“Put your thoughts to sleep,
do not let them cast a shadow
over the moon of your heart.
Let go of thinking.”
― Rumi

“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some reason is really getting to your heart. You’re just standing there thinking about going to work and picking up your dry cleaning. And also more exciting things like books you’re reading and trips you plan on taking and relationships that are springing into existence. Or fading from your memory, which is far less exciting. And suddenly you just don’t feel at home in your skin or in your house and you just want home but “Mom’s” probably wouldn’t feel like home anymore either. There used to be the comfort of a number in your phone and ears that listened every day and arms that were never for anyone else. But just to calm you down when you started feeling trapped in a five-minute period where nostalgia is too much and thoughts of this person you are feel foreign. When you realize that you’ll never be this young again but this is the first time you’ve ever been this old. When you can’t remember how you got from sixteen to here and all the same feel like sixteen is just as much of a stranger to you now. The song is over. The coffee’s done. You’re going to breath in and out. You’re going to be fine in about five minutes.”
― Kalyn Roseanne Livernois, High Wire Darlings

“Growing up feels like your skin no longer fits. Like you just want to crawl out of that thinly stretched space and lay down in the grass and sob for hours. Instead, I am in a cafe eating lunch and trying not to scream. Looking around wondering if anyone else in this building is doing the same thing, wondering if they ever have and, if so, how they got through it. Maybe I would calm down if I just had the assurance that other people have looked in the mirror and no longer recognized themselves. Maybe if I could sit across the table from an elderly woman and have her tell me that she lived through days where the covers over her head felt even better than an embrace and weeks where she drank her tears to keep from wetting her shirt sleeves, but that those years shaped her into an iron skeleton with a tender heart. That “worth it” was an understatement. Maybe then I would feel okay.”
― Kalyn Roseanne Livernois, High Wire Darlings

“أنتَ لم تكن تفكر فيّ وأنا لم أكن أفكر فيك ، ولكن لماذا كنت أحيد عن طريقك لئلا ألتقي بك ،
وأنا التي أود أن أبحث عنك في كل مكان ؟؟ ولماذا كنت تتقن خطواتك إذ تعلم أني أراقبها ؟
وتنغم نبرات صوتك وتنوعها إذ تعلم أنها واصلة إلي ؟؟!”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, أوراق الورد

“دع العاشق في كونه”
― جلال الدين الرومي, رباعيات جلال الدين الرومي

“أنتَ جوهرٌ والعالمَان كلاهما عَرَض لك
والجوهر الذي يُطلَب من العَرَض ليس بذي قيمة
ابكِ على من يبحث عن العِلْم في القلب
واضحك على من يبحث عن العقل في النفس”
― جلال الدين الرومي, فيه ما فيه

“كم من الوقت ستضربني مثل طبل
وتجعلني أتأوه لك مثل كمان؟
تجيب، تعال.
سأمسك بك قريبا مني
وأضربك مثل عود.
لكني أحس أكثر أني مثل ناي
تضعه في فمك و تغفل أن تنفخ.”
― جلال الدين الرومي

“لا رفيق سوى العشق
طريق، دون بدء أو نهاية
يدعو الرفيق هناك:
ما الذي يُهملك حين تكون الحياة محفوفة بالمخاطر!”
― جلال الدين الرومي, رباعيات جلال الدين الرومي

“أشرِق وكأن الكون كله لك”
― جلال الدين الرومي

“كل وجود إنما هو في وصاله”
― جلال الدين الرومي, مختارات من ديوان شمس الدين تبريزي لمولانا جلال الدين الرومي

“كل من افترق عن من يتحدثون لغته، ظل بلا لسان، وإن كان لديه ألف صوت.”
― جلال الدين الرومي, مثنوى - الكتاب الأول

“متى يكون الليل مظلما مع قمر وجهك، والنهار بدونك ظلام.”
― جلال الدين الرومي, مثنوى - الكتاب الأول

“هناك شمعة في قلبك .. تنتظر أن تضاء
هناك فراغ في روحك .. ينتظر أن يملأ
إنك تشعر بهذا ، أليس كذلك ؟!”
― جلال الدين الرومي