Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God’s lover, yet you worry what people are saying.

…the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community was to open the heart, explore the mystery of union,to fiercely search for and try to say the truth,and to celebrate the glory and difficulty in being...

Cuando te des cuenta de la diferencia entre el contenedor y el contenido, tendrás conocimiento.

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,no light and no land anywhere,cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface, yet I’m already underand living within the ocean.

The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.

Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.

In one moment, we are now forever,in one moment…

Los secretos Sufis son percibidos, no entendidos a través de palabras.

Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone.

I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.

Experiméntalo y conocerás”.

Notice how each particle moves.Notice how everyone has just arrived here from a journey.Notice how each wants a different food.Notice how the stars vanish as the sun comes up, and how all streams stream toward...

…lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets.The moon sets.But they are not gone.~Rumi

We both disliked rude rickshwalas, shepu bhaji in any form, group photographs at weddings, lizards, tea that has gone cold, the habit of taking newspaper to the toilet, kissing a boy who’d just smoked a...

Epitafio de Jalaludin RumiCuando estemos muertos, no busques nuestra tumba en la tierra, mas encuéntrala en el corazón de los hombres.

Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty.

The only mistake you have made is asking the wrong question. It isn’t about what you did wrong. It’s what you have not yet done.

Es axiomático que el intento de hacerse sufi para lograr ventajas personales, o lo que suele entenderse por las mismas, no tendrá éxito.

Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.

If you can love all who’ve betrayed you… you can taste sweetness in everything.

I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.

And I was your moon because I shined brighter than any other star in your universe and you were my darkness. Without you I could not see the depth of my light and with you...

Donde haya una cosa verdadera o útil, con seguridad habrá una falsificación.

I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns.

Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

la respuesta a un tonto es el silencio”:La observación, sin embargo, indica que prácticamente cualquier otra respuesta tendrá el mismo efecto a largo plazo.

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided.” When a man looks at a star, and finds his way...

The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.

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.

Sonnet IIf thee must say that I am not who I am,That I am not real or true,Then thou must say you are not as well,For we either walk in fairytales and dance to our...

El burro que te trajo a esta puerta debe ser desechado si quieres atravesarla”.

A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you.Do not consider what strangers say.Be secluded in your secret heart-house,that bowl of silence.

Your transformation will be the miracle.

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.

What you seek is seeking you.

Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

I see the life with your sight,O” the love; you’re my light.

You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God.

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.

Die! Die! Die in this love!If you die in this love,Your soul will be renewed. Die! Die! Don’t fear the death of that which is knownIf you die to the temporal, You will become timeless.

….it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you,but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art.

Si no puedes sentarte en un trono como un rey, sujeta, como un tendero, la cuerda de la tienda Real.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

…see the blessing and beauty that you are.

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.

No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.