Words of Rumi

"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."

"The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."

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

"Oh soul,you worry too much.You have seen your own strength.You have seen your own beauty.You have seen your golden wings.Of anything less,why do you worry?You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.""Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

"You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?"

"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.""Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent."

"Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still""Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness."

"Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him."

"Why do you stay in prisonwhen the door is so wide open?Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence.""Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself."

-Rumi