I Heart Rumi II

More of my Love Affair with Rumi~

“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;
For I am like the Moon,
you will see me with new face everyday.” 
― Rumi

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

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” 
-Rumi

“Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.” 
― Rumi

“From "Wetness and Water"

How does a part of the world leave the world?
How can wetness leave water?

Do not try to put out a fire
by throwing on more fire.
Do not wash a wound with blood.

No matter how fast you run,
your shadow more than keeps up.
Sometimes it's in front.

Only full, overhead sun
diminishes your shadow.

But that shadow has been serving you.
What hurts you blesses you.
Darkness is your candle.
Your boundaries are your quest.” 
― Rumi 

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“Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions 
with beauty.” 
― Rumi


“The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.” 
― Rumi

​“All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,
And I intend to end up there.

This drunkenness began in some other tavern.
When I get back around to that place,
I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile,
I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.
The day is coming when I fly off,
But who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?
Who says words with my mouth?

Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
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.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

We have a huge barrel of wine, but no cups.
That's fine with us. Every morning
We glow and in the evening we glow again.” 
― Rumi


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