Berat Akbaba > Berat's Quotes

“There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.

The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion”
― Rumi, مثنوی معنوی

“Don’t wait any longer.
Dive in the ocean,
Leave and let the sea be you.”
― Rumi

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

“When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off;
you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy.
…People fancy they are enjoying themselves,
but they are really tearing out their wings
for the sake of an illusion.”
― Rumi

“Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
― Rumi

“When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.”
― Rumi

“There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“My friend, you thought you lost Him;
that all your life you've been separated from Him.
Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him,
and haven't searched within your own house.”
― Rumi Jalalu'l-Din

“The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.”
― Rumi

“There are thousands of wines
that can take over our minds.

Don't think all ecstasies
are the same!

Jesus was lost in his love for God.
His donkey was drunk with barley.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“
so your life will stay fresh.”
― Rumi Jalalu'l-Din

“There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.”

The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.”

The water replied, “How will your shame be washed away without me?”
― Rumi

“make your last journey
from this strange world
soar for the heights
where there is no more
separation of you and your home

God has created
your wings not to be dormant
as long as you are alive
you must try more and more
to use your wings to show you're alive”
― Jelalludin Rumi

“I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection.
I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me.
I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain.
I chose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips.
I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams you have no end.”
― Rumi

“Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one.”
― Rumi

“Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl”
― rumi

“If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread.
If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul.
If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.”
― Rumi

“The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“Now be silent.
Let the One who creates the words speak.
He made the door.
He made the lock.
He also made the key.”
― Rumi

“Love is a river. Drink from it.”
― Rumi

“If you are seeking, seek us with joy
For we live in the kingdom of joy.
Do not give your heart to anything else
But to the love of those who are clear joy,
Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.
For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –
Do not go in the direction of darkness –
I tell you: suns exist.”
― Rumi

“people want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain”
― Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi

“Whenever we can manage to love without
expectations,
calculations,
negotiations,
we are indeed in heaven.”
― Rumi

“The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”
― Rumi

“Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!”
― Rumi

“With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love.”
― Rumi

“Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.”
― rumi

“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.”
― Rumi