"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other...
"Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing, there is a field -I'll meet you there - when the soul lies down in that grass, ideas, language, even the ...
"No one suffers enough," he said.<br>"Be the one who suffers everything<br>and comes to me with nothing but this bowl<br>into which I can pour my wine." –...
Rumi on (mystical) love, realized by the Unity of<br>Being:<br><br>"This is love: to fly to heaven,<br>every monent to rend a hundred veils;<br>at first...
Lovers, oh lovers, what remedy is there? For I am consumed<br>with fire, and yet this business is unsettled.<br>There is no remedy but pure wine in cups which...
Don't let your throat tighten<br>with fear. Take sips of breath<br>all day and night. Before death<br>closes your mouth.<br><br>There's no love in me without ...
Say Yes Quickly<br><br>Forget your life. Say God is Great. Get up.<br>You think you know what time it is. It's time to pray.<br>You've carved so many little...
look at love<br>how it tangles<br>with the one fallen in love<br><br>look at spirit<br>how it fuses with earth<br>giving it new life<br><br>why are you so ...
i was ready to tell<br>the story of my life<br>but the ripple of tears<br>and the agony of my heart<br>wouldn't let me<br><br>i began to stutter<br>saying a...
who is this existence<br>who puts sadness<br>in your heart<br><br>who is this soul<br>who sweetens your grief<br>as soon as you crawl<br><br>the one who first...
i want to leave this town<br>but you've chained me down<br>stolen away my heart<br>leaving yourself behind<br><br>now i've lost my way<br>my soul restless and...
if you can disentangle<br>yourself from your selfish self<br>all heavenly spirits<br>will stand ready to serve you<br><br>if you can finally hunt down<br>your...
Listen to the story told by the reed<br>of being separate.<br><br>"Since I was cut from the reedbed,<br>I have made this crying sound.<br><br>Anyone separated...
believe me<br>i wasn't always like this<br>lacking common sense<br>or looking insane<br><br>like you<br>i used to be clever<br>in my days<br><br>never like ...
I need a mouth as wide as the sky <br>to say the nature of a True Person, language <br>as large as longing.<br><br>The fragile vial inside me often breaks....
how long should i bear<br>this distressed life<br>because of hopes and fears<br><br>give me some wine<br>rescue me for a while<br>from these hopes and ...
Hello and thanks for the invitation to join. I am a lover of Hafiz of Shiraz and I am just beginning to become acquainted with Rumi. <br><br>I think that the...
come and see me<br>today i am away<br>out of this world<br>hidden away<br>from me and i<br><br>i grabbed a dagger<br>made slices of<br>me from myself<br>since...
