When you

When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you,
a joy.

— Rumi

The way of love

"The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings."

- Rumi

The breath

"The breath of the flute player:
does it belong to the flute?"

– Rumi

Come, come

"Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come."

— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Your task

"Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

~Rumi

Come, come

“Come, come, whoever you are
Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving,
Ours is no caravan of despair,
Even if you have broken your vow a thousand times,
Come, yet again, come ...”

~ adapted from Rumi

Why should I seek?

Why should I seek?
I am the same as He.
His essence speaks through me.
I have been looking for myself!

~Rumi.

Fly away

Fly away, fly away bird to your native home,
You have leapt free of the cage
Your wings are flung back in the wind of God.
Leave behind the stagnant and marshy waters,
Hurry, hurry, hurry, O bird, to the source of life

—RUMI

Forget

Forget any sounds or touch you knew
that did not help you dance.

~Rumi

This is not the time

"This is not the time to stay at home,
But to go out and give yourself to the garden.
The dawn of joy has arisen,
And this is the moment of union, of vision."

~ Rumi

I burn away

I burn away; laugh; my ashes are alive!
I die a thousand times:
My ashes dance back -
A thousand new faces.

~Rumi

The morning wind

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.

~Rumi

Move outside

Move outside the tangle of fear thinking.
Live in silence.
Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.

~Rumi

After despair
many hopes flourish.
Just as after darkness,
thousands of suns
open and
start to shine.

~Rumi

If it is love

If it is love you are looking for, take a knife and cut off the head of fear.

~Rumi

Out beyond

Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.

~Rumi

Brother

Brother stand the pain; Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose. A particular glows with the universal.

~Rumi

The soul

The soul is here for its own joy.

~Rumi

Let the waters

Let the waters settle
you will see stars and moon
mirrored in your Being.

~Rumi

Watch the dust

Watch the dust grains moving in the light near the window. Their dance is our dance.

~Rumi