poetry

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire. Rumi

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

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Rumi

If the foot of the trees were not tied to the earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens. Rumi

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop. Rumi

Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes. Rumi

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your myth. Rumi

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. Rumi

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. Rumi

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again. Rumi

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. Rumi

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Rumi