Rumi, The Essential Rumi

Quotes

• “Knowledge that is acquiredis not like this. Those who have it worry ifaudiences like it or not.It's a bait for popularit...”
• “You're water. We're the millstone.You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.You're spirit. We're the opening and clos...”
• “When you go through a hard period,When everything seems to oppose you,... When you feel you cannot even bear one more mi...”
• “Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be ...”
• “This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.I don't plan it.When I'm outside the saying of it,I get very quiet and r...”
• “There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.The hopers would feel slighted if they k...”
• “God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not ...”
• “You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership,who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange.”
• “Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?”
• “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
• “Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.”