Jalaluddin Rumi

Do you know what you are?You are a manuscript o_ a divine letter.You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself;everything that you want, you are already that.

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

An eye is meant to see things.The soul is here for its own joy.A head has one use: For loving a true love.Feet: To chase after.Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,for learning what men have done and tried to do.Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blindwhen it only wants to see why.A lover is always accused of something.But when he finds his love, whatever was lostin the looking comes back completely changed.

Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah_it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.You feel it, don't you?

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Last night you left me and sleptyour own deep sleep. Tonight you turnand turn. I say,__ou and I will be togethertill the universe dissolves.__ou mumble back things you thought ofwhen you were drunk.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Two there are, who are never satisfied; The lover of the world and the lover of Knowledge.

Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a desert plain. For us, there is a passion in the midst of that expanse. The knower who reaches there will prostrate, there is neither Islam nor unbelief, nor any 'where' in that place.

Peygamber dedi: 'Kadın akıllılara ve gönül sahiplerine tam galip gelir. Cahillerse kadına üstün olur, çünkü onlar sert ve serke_ davranır.' İncelik, letafet ve insaf onlarda az bulunur, çünkü tabiatlarında hayvanlık galiptir. Sevgi ve incelik, insanlık vasfıdır. _fke ve _ehvet, hayvanlık vasfıdır. O, Hakk'ın ı_ı_ıdır; sevgili de_il. O, sanki yaratıcıdır; yaratılmı_ de_ildir.