Where is God?
Do not look for God,
look for the one looking for God…But why look at all?
God is not lost,
God is right here…
closer than your own breath.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Do not look for God,
look for the one looking for God…But why look at all?
God is not lost,
God is right here…
closer than your own breath.
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
— Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Stay together, friends.
Don’t scatter and sleep.
Our friendship is made of being awake.The waterwheel accepts water
and turns and gives it away,
weeping.
That way it stays in the garden,
whereas another roundness
rolls through a dry riverbed looking
for what it thinks it wants.Stay here, quivering with each moment
like a drop of mercury.
— Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Jessie is leaving today to Indonesia. I miss her already 🙁
This aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives.
This freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth.
To be one with the truth for just a moment,
Is worth more than the world and life itself.
— Jalal ad-Din Rumi
How will you know the difficulties of being human if you’re always flying off to blue perfection?
Where will you plant your grief-seeds? We need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire
— Jalal ad-Din Rumi
The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere,
they’re in each other all along.
— Jalal ad-Din Rumi
🙂
Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise. All the rain of heaven may fall into the sea. Without love, not one drop could become a pearl.
— Jalal ad-Din Rumi
A lover asked his beloved,
Do you love yourself more
than you love me?The beloved replied,
I have died to myself
and I live for you.I’ve disappeared from myself
and my attributes.
I am present only for you.I have forgotten all my learning,
but from knowing you
I have become a scholar.I have lost all my strength,
but from your power
I am able.If I love myself
I love you.
If I love you
I love myself.
— Jalal ad-Din Rumi
WOW! Just wow.
Random thought of the day: I’m going to put Rumi’s poetry on my wedding invitation card — if I ever get married! Hahahaha. I told ya, it’s a random thing.
Now be silent. Let the One who creates words speak. He made the door, He made the lock, He also made the key.
— Jalal ad-Din Rumi
All we have to do is to find ways to reach for the key, right? 🙂
The Friend comes into my body
looking for the center,
unable to find it, draws a blade,
strikes anywhere.
— Jalal ad-Din Rumi
I’ve reached the point where I don’t care about you anymore. Just let me know when you’re done. So I can remind you to fix the mess. Then you can leave.