“For the thirst to possess your love,
Is worth my blood a hundred times.”
― Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi
Is worth my blood a hundred times.”
― Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of 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”
― Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
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”
― Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of 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.”
― Night and Sleep
So the nightbirds will start singing.”
― Night and Sleep
“For without you, I swear, the town
Has become like a prison to me.
Distraction and the mountain
And the desert, all I desire.”
― Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi
Has become like a prison to me.
Distraction and the mountain
And the desert, all I desire.”
― Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of 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.”
― A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
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.”
― A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
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