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“I think therefore I am”
― René Descartes, Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din

“They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“You think you are alive
because you breathe air?
Shame on you,
that you are alive in such a limited way.
Don't be without Love,
so you won't feel dead.
Die in Love
and stay alive forever.”
― Rumi

“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.”
― Rumi

“My heart is so small
it's almost invisible.
How can You place
such big sorrows in it?
"Look," He answered,
"your eyes are even smaller,
yet they behold the world.”
― Rumi

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

“Don't try to steer the boat.
Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent.
You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear,
And if you do speak, ask for explanations.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.”
― Rumi

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.”
― Rumi

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

“The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked”
― Mawlânâ Djalal al-Din Rumi

“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”
― Rumi

“Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”
― Rumi

“Your eyelashes will write on my heart
the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.”
― Rumi

“आओ फिर से दिया जलाएँ
भरी दुपहरी में अंधियारा

सूरज परछाई से हारा
अंतरतम का नेह निचोड़ें

बुझी हुई बाती सुलगाएँ।
आओ फिर से दिया जलाएँ

हम पड़ाव को समझे मंज़िल
लक्ष्य हुआ आंखों से ओझल

वतर्मान के मोहजाल में
आने वाला कल न भुलाएँ।

आओ फिर से दिया जलाएँ।

आहुति बाकी यज्ञ अधूरा
अपनों के विघ्नों ने घेरा

अंतिम जय का वज़्र बनाने
नव दधीचि हड्डियां गलाएँ।

आओ फिर से दिया जलाएँ”
― Atal Bihari Vajpayee

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“The Quiet World

In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided
to allot each person exactly one hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.

When the phone rings, I put it to my ear
without saying hello. In the restaurant
I point at chicken noodle soup.
I am adjusting well to the new way.

Late at night, I call my long distance lover,
proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.
I saved the rest for you.

When she doesn’t respond,
I know she’s used up all her words,
so I slowly whisper I love you
thirty-two and a third times.
After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.”
― Jeffrey McDaniel, Forgiveness Parade