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Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not HinduBuddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religionor cultural system. I am not from the Eastor the West, not out of..

Lovers share a sacred decree –to seek the Beloved.They roll head over heels,rushing toward the Beautiful Onelike a torrent of water.In truth..

Love is not condescension, neverthat, nor books, nor any markingon paper, nor what people say ofeach other. Love is a tree withbranches reaching into..

On the day I die, when I'm beingcarried toward the grave, don't weep.Don't say, ‘He's gone! He's gone!'Death has nothing to do with going away.The..

Those who don't feel this Lovepulling them like a river,those who don't drink dawnlike a cup of spring wateror take in sunset like supper,those who..

We've come again to that knee of seacoastno ocean can reach.Tie together all human intellects.They won't stretch to here.The sky bares its neck so..

"Granite and Wineglass"You are granite.I am an empty wineglass.You know what happens when we touch!You laugh like the sun coming up..

Go to your pillow and sleep, my son.Leave me alone in the passionOf this death-night.Let the mill turn with your grieving.But stay clear. Don't..

An intellectual is all the time showing off.Lovers dissolve and become bewildered.Intellectuals try not to drown,while the whole purpose of lovesis..

I don't get tired of you. Don't grow wearyof being compassionate toward me!All this thirst equipmentmust surely be tired of me,the waterjar, the..

There is a passion in methat doesn't long for anythingfrom another human being.I was given something else,a cap to wear in both worlds.It fell off...

I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star.He..

O you who've gone on pilgrimage -where are you, where, oh where?Here, here is the Beloved!Oh come now, come, oh come!Your friend, he is your..

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now,Be all - worlds dissolve into yourstainless endless radiance,Frail living leaves burn with your..

In my heart you are the mirthful rayYou are the caring, though my companions theyHappy is the world with the Nowruz and with the EidYou are both my..

What the material world values doesnot shine the same in the truth of the soul.You have been interestedin your shadow. Look instead directly at the..

There's courage involved if you wantto become truth.There is a broken- open place in a lover.Where are those qualities of bravery andsharp compassion..

My mother was fortune, my father generosity and bounty; Iam joy, son of joy, son of joy, son of joy.Behold, the Marquis of Glee has attainted..

My heart is burning with loveAll can see this flameMy heart is pulsing with passionlike waves on an oceanmy friends have become strangersand I'm..

When you do things from your soul, you feel a rivermoving in you, a joy.When actions come from another section, the feelingdisappears.Don't let..

In the prologue to the Masnavi Rumi hailed Love and its sweet madness that heals all infirmities, and he exhorted the reader to burst the bonds to..

O lovers, lovers it is timeto set out from the world.I hear a drum in my soul's earcoming from the depths of the stars.Our camel driver is at..

Love makes bitter things sweet.Love turns copper to gold.With love dregs settle into clarity.With love suffering ceases.Love brings the dead back to..

Everything other than love for the most beautiful Godthough it be sugar- eating.What is agony of the spirit?To advance toward death without..

for your pain will keep giving birth to more painuntil your eyes constantly exhale loveas effortlessly as your body yields its scent.'