Jalaluddin Rumi

A moment of happiness,you and I sitting on the verandah,apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.We feel the flowing water of life here,you and I, with the garden's beautyand the birds singing.The stars will be watching us,and we will show themwhat it is to be a thin crescent moon.You and I unselfed, will be together,indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugaras we laugh together, you and I.In one form upon this earth,and in another form in a timeless sweet land.

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

You're water. We're the millstone.You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity.We're the language that tries to say it.You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.

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

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

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

This silence, this moment, every moment, if it__ genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There__ nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty.Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, __e more silent._ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you__e died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence.

Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

My heart is so smallit's almost invisible.How can You place such big sorrows in it?"Look," He answered,"your eyes are even smaller,yet they behold the world.

You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership,who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange.

You think of yourselfas a citizen of the universe.You think you belong to this world of dust and matter.Out of this dustyou have created a personal image,and have forgottenabout the essence of your true origin

Give your weakness to one who helps.

The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

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.

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.