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  • #1
    “Perhaps we don't like what we see: our hips, our loss of hair, our shoe size, our dimples, our knuckles too big, our eating habits, our disposition. We have disclosed these things in secret, likes and dislikes, behind doors with locks, our lonely rooms, our messy desks, our empty hearts, our sudden bursts of energy, our sudden bouts of depression. Don’t worry. Put away your mirrors and your beauty magazines and your books on tape. There is someone right here who knows you more than you do, who is making room on the couch, who is fixing a meal, who is putting on your favorite record, who is listening intently to what you have to say, who is standing there with you, face to face, hand to hand, eye to eye, mouth to mouth. There is no space left uncovered. This is where you belong.”
    Sufjan Stevens

  • #2
    “I always knew you
    In your mothers arms
    I have called your name
    I have an idea
    Placed in your mind
    To be a better man
    I've made a crown for you
    Put it in your room
    And when the bridegroom comes
    There will be noise
    There will be glad
    And a perfect bed
    And when you write a poem
    I know the words
    I know the sounds
    Before you write it down
    When you wear your clothes
    I wear them too
    I wear your shoes
    And your jacket too
    I always knew you
    In your mothers arms
    I have called you son
    I've made amends
    Between father and son
    Or, if you haven't one
    Rest in my arms
    Sleep in my bed
    There's a design
    To what I did and said ”
    Sufjan Stevens

  • #3
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “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

  • #4
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
    Rumi
    tags: joy

  • #5
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-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

  • #6
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
    Rumi

  • #7
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
    There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
    You feel it, don't you?”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #8
    Eckhart Tolle
    “The past has no power over the present moment.”
    Eckhart Tolle

  • #9
    Eckhart Tolle
    “Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”
    Eckhart Tolle

  • #10
    Eckhart Tolle
    “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
    Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

  • #11
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
    Rumi

  • #12
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “What you seek is seeking you.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #13
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
    Jalalu'l-din Rumi

  • #14
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “At night, I open the window
    and ask the moon to come
    and press its face against mine.
    Breathe into me.
    Close the language-door
    and open the love-window.
    The moon won't use the door,
    only the window.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings

  • #15
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I was dead, then alive.
    Weeping, then laughing.

    The power of love came into me,
    and I became fierce like a lion,
    then tender like the evening star.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #16
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Oh soul,
    you worry too much.
    You have seen your own strength.
    You have seen your own beauty.
    You have seen your golden wings.
    Of anything less,
    why do you worry?
    You are in truth
    the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #17
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Oh sky, without me, do not change,
    Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
    Oh earth, without me, do not grow,
    Oh time, without me, do not go.

    ...Oh, you cannot go, without me.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi

  • #18
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Love calls - everywhere and always.
    We're sky bound.
    Are you coming?”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #19
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “For without you, I swear, the town
    Has become like a prison to me.
    Distraction and the mountain
    And the desert, all I desire.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi

  • #20
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
    tags: rumi

  • #21
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-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

  • #22
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower.
    So the nightbirds will start singing.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Night and Sleep

  • #23
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
    eat less of it, for it is full of fire.
    Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,
    but its smoke becomes visible in the end. ”
    Rumi Jalalu'l-Din

  • #24
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Do you know what you are?
    You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
    You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
    This universe is not outside of you.
    Look inside yourself;
    everything that you want,
    you are already that.”
    Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi

  • #25
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages;
    the eye has already made love with what it sees.

    The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape:
    the ear hears words that talk about all this.

    When hearing takes place, character areas change;
    but when you see, inner areas change.

    If all you know about fire is what you have heard
    see if the fire will agree to cook you!

    Certain energies come only when you burn.
    If you long for belief, sit down in the fire!

    When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye.
    But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Night and Sleep

  • #26
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “You think of yourself
    as a citizen of the universe.
    You think you belong
    to this world of dust and matter.
    Out of this dust
    you have created a personal image,
    and have forgotten
    about the essence of your true origin”
    Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi

  • #27
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Lovers find secret places
    inside this violent world
    where they make transactions
    with beauty.”
    Rumi

  • #28
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “For the thirst to possess your love,
    Is worth my blood a hundred times.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi

  • #29
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Be helpless, dumbfounded,
    Unable to say yes or no.
    Then a stretcher will come from grace
    to gather us up.

    We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty.
    If we say we can, we’re lying.
    If we say No, we don’t see it,
    That No will behead us
    And shut tight our window onto spirit.

    So let us rather not be sure of anything,
    Beside ourselves, and only that, so
    Miraculous beings come running to help.
    Crazed, lying in a zero circle, mute,
    We shall be saying finally,
    With tremendous eloquence, Lead us.
    When we have totally surrendered to that beauty,
    We shall be a mighty kindness.”
    Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

  • #30
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “This is how I would die
    into the love I have for you:
    As pieces of cloud
    dissolve in sunlight.”
    Rumi
    tags: rumi



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