“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
“Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”
― Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi
― Words of Paradise: Selected 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
“How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.”
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