#rumi

"What Is The Body?", by Jelaluddin Rumi

An invisible bird flies over, but casts a quick shadow. What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the...

"Late, by myself...", by Jalaluddin Rumi

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm...

"Story Water", by Jalaluddin Rumi

A story is like water that you heat for your bath. It takes messages between the fire and your skin. It lets them meet, and it cleans...

"Out Beyond Ideas..." by Rumi

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is...

"Birdwings" by Jalaluddin Rumi

Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’re bravely working Expecting the worst, you look, and instead here’s the...

"You suppose you are the trouble..." by Jelaludin Rumi

You suppose you are the trouble but you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door but you are the key that opens it It's...

"A Community of the Spirit" by Jelaluddin Rumi

There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your...

"Tending Two Shops" by Jelaluddin Rumi

Don’t run around this world looking for a hole to hide in. There are wild beasts in every cave! If you live with mice, the cat claws will...

"The Guest House" by Jelaluddin 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...