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“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
― Rumi, The Essential 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

“I will be waiting here....
For your silence to break,
For your soul to shake,
For your love to wake!”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

Praise God for these two insomnias!
And the difference between them.

The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.

We are the mirror as well as the face in it.
We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain
and what cures pain, both. We are
the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.

I want to hold you close like a lute,
so we can cry out with loving.

You would rather throw stones at a mirror?
I am your mirror, and here are the stones.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it,
I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“We are the night ocean filled
with glints of light. We are the space
between the fish and the moon,
while we sit here together.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. It will not lead you astray.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Your boundaries are your quest.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Don’t grieve for what doesn’t come. Some things that don’t happen keep disasters from happening.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“This is a subtle truth.
Whatever you love, you are.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“The universe swings again into orbit around us.
Am I looking for you or you for me?
The question is wrong.

As long as I keep using two pronouns,
I am this in-between, two-headed thing.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“We cannot say much about love at first sight. It happens, and we live in the wake of a new life.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Don’t complain about autumn. Walk with grief like a good friend. Listen to what he says. Sometimes the cold and dark of a cave give the opening we most want.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven’t been patient.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Dance, when you’re broken open.
Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you’re perfectly free.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Those of you who are scattered,
simplify your worrying lives. There is one
righteousness: Water the fruit trees,
and don't water the thorns.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Friendship and loyalty have patience
as the strength of their connections.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Don’t ask questions about longing.
Look in my face.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Third, why did I ever learn to count to three?”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“This is how it always is
when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me,
and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as
the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Much of your pain is self-chosen.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater."

But I say unto you, they are inseparable.

Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet