And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
-Rumi
Make peace with the Universe. The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open. Don’t plant anything but love.
Rumi
And God said “love your enemies”
and I obeyed him and loved myself.
—khalil Gibran
“I choose to love you in silence because in silence I find no rejection, and in silence no one owns you but me.”— Rumi
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How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver.
Rumi
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The world exists as you perceive it.
It is not what you see… but how you see it..
It is not what you hear… but how you hear it.
It is not what you feel..but how you feel it.
Rumi
Let yourself
be silently
drawn by
the strange
pull of what
you really love
It will not
lead you astray.Rumi
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
-Eckhart Tolle
“Express yourself completely,
then keep quiet.
Be like the forces of nature:
when it blows, there is only wind;
when it rains, there is only rain;
when the clouds pass, the sun shines through.
-Lao Tzu
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
-Rumi
“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
Rumi
The only way to prevent conflicts is if Human Beings learn to think beyond ourselves and what is ours. What lies beyond our boun…
You carry a basket full of bread, yet
you beg for crumbs from door to door.
You are up to your knees in water, yet
you beg for a drink from everyone you see.
Why are you so blind and stubborn?
Beg at the door of your heart instead.
~ Rumi