The Essentials of Rumi

You are a volume in the divine book
A mirror to the power that created the universe
Whatever you want, ask it of yourself
Whatever you’re looking for can only be found
Inside of you.

-Rumi

Raise your words, not voice!
It is rain which grows flowers, not thunder!

-Rumi 

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.

 -Rumi

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent a
as a guide from beyond.
- Rumi

 

"I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?
Look at your eyes.
They are small,
but they see enormous things."
- Essentials of Rumi

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