Berat Akbaba

“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

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

“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.
Ignore those that make you fearful
and sad, that degrade you
back toward disease and death.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Why are you so enchanted by this world
when a mine of gold lies within you?”
― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved