Empathy is even better than talking in one language Rumi More Quotes by Rumi More Quotes From Rumi We are the mirror, as well as the face in it. Rumi painbeautifulsweet For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back. Rumi dustairsleep We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones. Rumi painsweetlove Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker. Rumi kindnesssweetlife I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans. Rumi clothessawshumans The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do. Rumi bowsifssky Your task? Rumi passiontaskslight Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . . Rumi passionkeysheart When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. Rumi dustblowinspirational Criticism polishes my mirror. Rumi polishmirrorscriticism Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody. Rumi felicityflutesplay And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. Rumi devilchoicesdesire The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute? Rumi playerdoeinspirational Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you. Rumi be-kindpoisonsweet Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. Rumi marriagelovefriendship I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside. Rumi spiritualdoorsinsanity Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond. Rumi boundariesdoorsdiscovery I’ve been looking for a long, long time, Rumi lightskylong Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is borne along by his own power and of his own volition. Every movement made by the drowned man - indeed, every act and word that issue from him - comes from the water, not from him... The saints are like this. They have died before death. Rumi islamicwisdommen Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your Heart from the darkness of hate Rumi hateheartpeople
