“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.”
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesn’t make any sense.”
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
"Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”
“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious."
"What you seek is seeking you.”
“Dance until you shatter yourself.”
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”
“The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”
“Life’s water flows from darkness. Search the darkness don’t run from it. Night travelers are full of light and you are too. Don’t leave this companionship.” - Search the Darkness by Rumi
“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”
“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead, let life live through you.”