The Way Things Turn

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal.  Walk out of your house like a shepherd. ~ Rumi

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying  again and again, "This was certainly not  lik...

Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you. ~ Rumi

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. ~ Rumi

You are not a drop in the ocean.  You are the entire ocean in a drop. ~ Rumi

There is a voice that doesn't use words.  Listen. ~ Rumi

What is your life about, anyway? Nothing but a  struggle to be someone.  Nothing but a running  from your own silence. ~ Rumi

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of this moment. ~ Rumi

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of  what you really love. ~ Rumi

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my soul. ...

Let the beauty of what  you love  be what you do . ~ Rumi

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I n...

Bringing joy to one heart with love is better  than one thousand repetitive prayer recitings. ~ Rumi

The moment you accept what troubles  you've been given, the door will open. ~ Rumi

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. ~ Rumi

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is  a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some  momentary awareness comes ...

Maybe you are searching among the branches  for what only appears in the roots. ~ Rumi

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to  change the world. Today I am wise,  so I am changing myself.  ~ Rumi 

Let silence take you to the core of life. ~ Rumi

The mystery does not get clearer  by repeating the questions. Nor is it bought by going to amazing places. Until you've kept...