Rumi

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”


“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.”


“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”


“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”


“The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”


“I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”


“Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.”


'Speak a new language
so that the world
will be a new world.'


'Gamble everything for love,
if you’re a true human being.'


'Everything in the universe is within you.
Ask all from yourself.'


'He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, 'Live!'.'



'Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.'

'No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light.'

'The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.'

'Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.'

 

'This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.'

'I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.'


'Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.'



' Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. '