Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord. Rumi More Quotes by Rumi More Quotes From Rumi Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. Rumi eyelashesheartwriting This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language. Rumi silenceuseovercoming Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul. Rumi colorheartreality Are you searching for the river of your soul? Rumi oceansoulrivers A strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere? Rumi passionheartmoving Those who are pure in heart achieve God-consciousness; they are truly and actually aware of God at the center of their being (their heart). These sanctified individuals are said to be Possessors of the Heart. Rumi achieveconsciousnessheart If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place unless you take off your shoes. Your shoe-constriction has you confined. At night before sleeping you take off the tight shoes, and your soul releases into a place it knows. Dreams glide deeper. Rumi freedomdreamsleep If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek. Rumi encouragementsoulsecret A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower. Rumi tongueflowerwhite It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home. Rumi moving-awaygoing-awayhome Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze, Rumi branchesrootsmoving Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that. Rumi drawssoullooks Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU. Rumi here-and-therejewels Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Rumi regretoceangiving A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I've disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I've forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I've become a scholar. I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself. Rumi ableknowinglove This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love. Rumi healedtroubleworld Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows. Rumi horizonskyrooms Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining. Rumi shininglightheart Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Rumi lifeboatsladderslamps 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 blind when it only wants to see why. A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed. Rumi eyelove-ismen
