I would love to kiss you.

The price of kissing is your life.

Now my loving is running toward my life shouting,

What a bargain, let's buy it.

Oh soul,

you worry too much.

You have seen your own strength.

You have seen your own beauty.

You have seen your golden wings.

Of anything less,

why do you worry?

You are in truth

the soul, of the soul, of the soul.

Rumi

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?

What do you know of Love except the name?

Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,

and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.

Rumi 

Joyful the moment when we sat in the bower, Thou and I;

In two forms and with two faces - with one soul, Thou and I.

The colour of the garden and the song of the birds give the elixir of immortality

The instant we come into the orchard, Thou and I.

The stars of Heaven come out to look upon us -

We shall show the moon herself to them, Thou and I.

Thou and I, with no 'Thou' or 'I', shall become one through our tasting;

Happy, safe from idle talking, Thou and I.

The spirited parrots of heaven will envy us -

Wen we shall laugh in such a way, Thou and I.

This is stranger, that Thou and I, in this corner here...

Are both in one breath here and there - Thou and I.

Rumi

Your beauty is glory in nakedness, the melt

Of smooth skin unsullied with petulant jewels

And the spoiling touch of silk. Your delicate face

Is as pure as the milk of the full moon.

Rumi

...what is sam? A message from 

the fairy, hidden in your heart;

with their letter comes serenity to

the estranged heart.

The tree of wisdom comes to bloom

with this breeze;

The inner pores of existence

open to this tune.

When the spiritual cock crows,

the dawn arrives;

When Mars beats his drum

victory is ours.

The essence of the soul was fighting

the barrel of the body;

When it hears the sound of the daf

it matures and calms down.

A wondrous sweetness is

sensed in the body;

It is the sugar that the flute and

the flute-player bring

to the listener.

The springtime of Lovers has come,

that this dust bowl may become a garden;

the proclamation of heaven has come,

that the bird of the soul may rise in flight.

The sea becomes full of pearls,

the salt marsh becomes sweet as kauthar,

the stone becomes a diamond from the mine,

the body becomes wholly soul.

Rumi

With Your sweet Soul, this soul of mine

has merged as water does with wine.

Who can part the water from the wine,

or me from You when we combine?

You have become my greater self;

how can smallness limit me?

You've taken on my being,

how shall I not take on Yours?

Forever, You have claimed me

that forever I may know You're mine. 

Rumi

O Sun, fill our house once more with light!

Make happy all your friends and blind your foes!

Rise from behind the hill, transform the stones

To rubies and the sour grapes to wine!

O Sun, make our vineyard fresh again,

And fill the steppes with houris and green cloaks!

Physician of the lovers, heaven's lamp!

Rescus the lovers! Help the suffering!

Show but your face - the world is filled with light!

But if you cover it, it's the darkest night!

Rumi

I said,

'O sweet beloved,

you are the refuge of my soul.'

He said, 'If you belong to me,

don't talk of your own soul.'

I said, 'Why do you cut me

with your sharp words?'

He said, 'My words wouldn't hurt you

if you weren't in love with yourself.'

Rumi

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Don't go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.

Don't go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill

where the two worlds touch.

The door is round and open.

Don't go back to sleep.

Rumi

never lose hope

when the Beloved

sends you away.

If you're abandoned

if you're left hopeless

tomorrow for sure

you'll be called again.

If the door is shut

right in your face

keep waiting with patience

don't leave right away.

Seeing your patience

your love will soon

summon you with grace

raise you like a champion.

Rumi

Should Love's heart rejoice unless I burn?

For my heart is Love's dwelling.

If You will burn Your house, burn it, Love!

Who will say, 'It's not allowed'?

Burn this house thoroughly!

The lover's house improves with fire.

From now on I will make burning my aim,

From now on I will make burning my aim,

for I am like the candle: burning only makes me brighter.

Abandon sleep tonight; traverse fro one night

the region of the sleepless.

Look upon these lovers who have become distraught

and like moths have died in union with the One Beloved.

Look upon this ship of God's creatures

and see how it is sunk in Love.

Rumi

Sometimes I wonder, sweetest love, if you

Were a mere dream in along winter night,

A dream of spring-days, and of golden light

Which sheds its rays upon a frozen heart;

A dream of wine that fills the drunken eye.

And so I wonder, sweetest love, if I

Should drink this ruby wine, or rather weep;

Each tear a bezel with your face engraved,

A rosary to memorize your name...

There are so many ways to call you back-

Yes, even if you only were a dream.

Rumi

Once a beloved asked her lover: 'Friend,

You have seen many places in the world!

Now - which of all these cities was the best?'

He said: 'The city where my sweetheart lives!'

Rumi

From myself I am copper,

through You, friend, I am gold.

From myself I'm a stone, but

through You I am a gem!

Rumi

Lover whispers to my ear,

'Better to be a prey than a hunter.

Make yourself My fool.

Stop trying to be the sun and become a speck!

Dwell at My door and be homeless.

Don't pretend to be a candle, be a moth,

so you may taste the savor of Life

and know the power hidden in serving.'

Rumi

I believe in love

I swear by love

believe me my love

how long

like a prisoner of grief

can I beg for mercy.

Rumi

Show me your face

I crave

flowers and gardens

open your lips

I crave

the taste of honey

come out from

behind the clouds

I desire a sunny face.

Rumi

in every breath

if you’re the center

of your own desires

you’ll lose the grace

of your beloved

but if in every breath

you blow away

your self claim

the ecstasy of love

will soon arrive.

Rumi

in every breath

if you’re the center

of your own thoughts

the sadness of autumn

will fall on you

but if in every breath

you strip naked

just like a winter

the joy of spring

will grow from within.

Rumi

all your unfulfilled desires

are from your greed

for gain of fulfillments

let go of them all

and they will be sent as gifts.

Rumi

fall in love with

the agony of love

not the ecstasy

then the beloved

will fall in love with you.

Rumi

A true Lover doesn't follow any one religion,

be sure of that.

Since in the religion of Love,

there is no irreverence or faith.

When in Love,

body, mind, heart and soul don't even exist.

Become this,

fall in Love,

and you will not be separated again.

Rumi

Before coming to this world we were in heaven.

We were friends of the angels.

There is our real homeland, and we will return to it.

Rumi

I will soothe you and heal you.

I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

Rumi

You twist my heart, dwell in my mind

and fill my eyes, you are my joy

I can’t be without you.

You are my sleep, my rest, the water I drink.

You are my clarity, my dignity, my world

I can’t be without you.

Rumi

Your fragrant breath

like the morning breeze

has come to the stillness of the garden

You have breathed new life into me Rumi

The world is a prison and we are the prisoners: dig a hole in the prison and let yourself out! rumi

The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.

Rumi

In truth everything and everyone

Is a shadow of the Beloved,

And our seeking is His seeking

And our words are His words...

We search for Him here and there,

while looking right at Him.

Sitting by His side, we ask:

'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'

Rumi

He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, 'Live!'

Rumi

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

Rumi

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.

Rumi

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.

Rumi

I bow to you for the dust of your feet

Is the crown on my head

And as I walk towards you

Every step I take is a blessing.

Rumi

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.

Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets.

Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.

Rumi

A lover knows only humility, he has no choice.

He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice.

He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret,

he has no choice.

In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment,

he has no choice. 

Rumi

A lover asked his beloved: Do you love yourself more than you love me?

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've forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I've become a scholar.

I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able.

I love myself...I love you.

I love you...I love myself.

Rumi

I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love.

Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars. 

You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love.

Even so, you have always been connected to me. 

Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest. 

I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond, 

I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me, 

leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.

Rumi

You have been a prisoner of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood.

Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance.

Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.

Rumi

I desire you more than food or drink.

My body my senses my mind hunger for your taste.

I can sense your presence in my heart although you belong to all the world.

I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you.

Rumi

I am so small I can barely be seen.

How can this great love be inside me?

Look at your eyes. They are small,

But they see enormous things.

Rumi

Oh lovers, where are you going?

Who are you looking for?

Your beloved is right here.

She lives in your own neighborhood.

Her face is veiled.

She hides behind screens calling for you,

while you search and lose yourself

in the wilderness and the desert.

Cease looking for flowers,

there blooms a garden in your own home.

While you go looking for trinkets,

your treasure house awaits you

in your own being.

There is no need for suffering, God is here!

Rumi

In love...nothing is eternal, but drinking your wine.

There is no reason for bringing my life to you,

other than losing it. I said, I just want to know you, 

and then disappear. She said, knowing me does not mean dying.

Rumi

This is how I would die into the love I have for you:

As pieces of cloud dissolve in Sunlight.

Rumi

Look at me and hear me, 

because I am here...

just for that!

Rumi

Oh God! I have discovered love!

How marvelous! How good!

How beautiful it is! My body is warm from the heat of this love.

Rumi

In love, nothing is eternal but drinking your wine,

There is no reason for bringing my life to you,

other then losing it.

I said 'I just want to know you, and then disappear'

She said,"Knowing me does not mean dying"

Rumi

The moon has become a dancer

at this festival of love.

This dance of light,

This sacred blessing,

This divine love,

beckons us

to a world beyond

only lovers can see

with their eyes of fiery passion.

They are the chosen ones

who have surrendered.

Once they were particles of light

now they are the radiant sun.

They have left behind

the world of deceitful games.

They are the privileged lovers

who create a new world

with their eyes of burning passion. Rumi

My heart is on fire

In my madness I roam the desert

The flames of my passion

devour the wind and the sky

My cries of longing

My wails of sorrow

Are tormenting my soul

You wait patiently

Looking into my intoxicated eyes

You accept my passion

with the serenity of Love

You are the Master of Existence

One day I shall be a Lover like You

Rumi

Since you will come

and throw kisses

at my tombstone later

why not give them to me now

this is me

that same person.

Rumi

The sky was lit

by the splendor of the moon

So powerful

I fell to the ground

Your love

has made me sure

I am ready to forsake

this worldly life

and surrender to the magnificence

of your Being.

Rumi

Oh lovers, where are you going?

Who are you looking for?

Your beloved is right here.

Rumi

My love for you has driven me insane

I wander aimlessly the ruins of my life, my old self a stranger to me

Because of your love I have broken with my past

My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage

I look for you in my innermost being.

Rumi

You come to us from another world

From beyond the stars and void of space.

Transcendent. Pure. Of unimaginable beauty.

Bringing with you the essence of Love.

You transform all who are touched by you.

Mundane concerns, troubles and sorrows

Dissolve in your presence.

Bringing joy to ruler and ruled. To peasant and king.

Rumi

Tonight is a night of union for the stars and of scattering,

scattering, since a bride is coming from the skies, consisting of a full moon.

Rumi

You amuse me with your touch

although I can't see your hands.

You have kissed me with tenderness

although I haven't seen your lips

You are hidden from me.

But it is you who keeps me alive

Perhaps the time will come

when you will tire of kisses

I shall be happy

even for insults from you

I only ask that you

keep some attention on me.

Rumi

Thirst drove me down to the water 

where I drank the moon’s reflection.

Rumi

The agony of lovers

burns with the fire of passion.

Lovers leave traces of where they've been.

The wailing of broken hearts

is the doorway to God.

Rumi

The wine we really drink is our own blood. 

Our bodies ferment in these barrels. 

We give everything for a glass of this. 

We give our minds for a sip.

Rumi

My sweet heart,

you have aroused my passion,

your touch has filled me with desire,

I am no longer separate from you,

these are precious moments,

I beseech you,

don't let me wait,

let me merge with you.

Rumi

Come to the orchid in Spring.

There is light and wine, and sweethearts

in the pomegranate flowers.

If you do not come, these do not matter.

If you do come, these do not matter.

Rumi

I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, 

did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story.

My place is the placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one

and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, 

only that breath breathing human being.

Rumi

I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.

Rumi

Nightingales are put in cages 

because their songs give pleasure. 

Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

Rumi

Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

Rumi

Pale sunlight,

pale the wall.

Love moves away.

The light changes. 

I need more grace

than I thought.

Rumi

I burn each second of my life to love,

Each second of my life burns out, in love,

In each leaping second, love lives afresh. 

Rumi

I have a thirsty fish in me 

that can never find enough 

of what it’s thirsty for!

Rumi

Are you searching for the river of your soul?

Then come out of your prison.

Leave the stream

and join the river

that flows into the ocean.

Rumi

Love is reckless; not reason.

Reason seeks a profit.

Having died of self-interest,

Love risks everything and asks for nothing.

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.

Rumi

My place is the Placeless, my trace is Traceless,

'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved

Rumi

You were born with potential

You were born with goodness and trust

You were born with ideals and dreams

You were born with greatness

You were born with wings

You are not meant for crawling, so don't.

You have wings

Learn to use them, and fly.

Rumi

I long to escape the prison of my ego

and lose myself in you.

Rumi

A moment of happiness,

you and I sitting on the verandah,

apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.

We feel the flowing water of life here,

you and I, with the garden's beauty

and the birds singing.

Rumi

That which God said to the rose,

and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty,

He said to my heart,

and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

Rumi

From the clear center of my heart

there are no edges to my loving you

I've heard it said there's a window that opens

from one mind to another

but if there were no wall,

what need of installing a window?

Rumi

If the wind had taken me to you,

I would have held tight to the skirts of the wind.

I miss you so much that I would fly to you faster than a bird;

But how can a bird with a clipped wing fly?

Rumi

There comes a holy

and transparent time

when every touch

of beauty

opens the heart

to tears.

This is the time

the Beloved of heaven

is brought tenderly on earth.

This is the time

of the opening

of the Rose.

Rumi

Remember any night of all of our nights

but don't remember things I've said.

Rumi

What was whispered to the rose

To break it open

Last night

Was whispered to my heart.

Rumi

Stop learning.

Start knowing.

The rose opens

And opens

And when it falls

Falls outward.

Rumi

Silence

You are the diamond in me

the Jewel of my real wealth!

From your soft earth

grow thousands

of rose gardens

whose perfumes

drown me

in my heart.

Rumi

I was dead

I came alive

I was tears

I became laughter

all because of love.

Rumi

love said

you are a candle

attracting everyone

gathering every one

around you.

Rumi

love said

you already have

your own wings

I will not give you

more feathers.

Rumi

My heart is burning with love

All can see this flame

My heart is pulsing with passion

like waves on an ocean.

Rumi

I’m at home wherever I am

And in the room of lovers

I can see with closed eyes

the beauty that dances.

Rumi

Behind the veils

intoxicated with love

I too dance the rhythm

of this moving world

I have lost my senses

in my world of lovers.

Rumi

Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.

The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.

Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,

The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

Rumi

Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door.

She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side.

Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair

My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.

Rumi

When I am with you, we stay up all night,

When you're not here, I can't get to sleep.

Praise God for these two insomnias!

And the difference between them.

Rumi

I have phrases and whole pages memorized,

but nothing can be told of love.

You must wait until you and I

are living together.

In the conversation we'll have

then...be patient...then.

Rumi

When the sweet glance of my true love caught my eyes,

Like alchemy, it transformed my copper-like soul.

I searched for Him with a thousand hands,

He stretched out His arms and clutched my feet.#

Rumi

There is a smile and a gentleness

inside. When I learned the name

and address of that, I went to where

you sell perfume. I begged you not

to trouble me so with longing. Come

out and play! Flirt more naturally.

Teach me how to kiss. On the ground

a spread blanket, flame that's caught

and burning well, cumin seeds browning,

I am inside all of this with my soul.

Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy,

absentminded. Someone sober

will worry about things going badly.

Let the lover be.

Rumi

When your chest is free of your limiting ego,

Then you will see the ageless Beloved.

You can not see yourself without a mirror;

Look at the Beloved, He is the brightest mirror.

Rumi

We are the mirror as well as the face in it.

We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity.

We are pain and what cures pain both.

We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.

Rumi

I want to hold you close like a lute so we can cry out with loving.

You would rather throw stones at a mirror?

I am your mirror, and here are the stones.

Rumi

You bewilder us with your grace,

all evils transformed into goodness.

You are the master alchemist.

You light the fire of love in Earth and Sky,

in heart and soul of every being.

Through your loving, 

existence and non-existence merge.

All opposites unite. 

All that is profane becomes sacred again.

Rumi

When it's cold and raining,

you are more beautiful.

And the snow brings me

even closer to your lips.

The inner secret, that which was never born,

you are that freshness, and I am with you now.

I can't explain the goings,

or the comings. You enter suddenly,

and I am nowhere again.

Inside the majesty.

Rumi

When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for one breath,

In that moment you will find your true destiny.

Alas, don't spoil this precious moment

Moments like this are very, very rare.

Rumi

And just the moment

when you are all confused

leaps forth a voice

hold me close

I'm love and

I'm always yours.

Rumi

You are the Essence of the Essence,

The intoxication of Love.

I long to sing your praises

but stand mute

with the agony of wishing in my heart.

Rumi

Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Rumi

The real beloved is your beginning and your end.

When you find that one,

you'll no longer expect anything else.

Rumi

Of the book of God

Thou art a copying,

A mirror, wherein showed

The beauty of the King.

All God ever wrought

Dwelleth not apart;

All thou hast ever sought,

Find it in thy heart.

Rumi

Those who don't feel this Love

pulling them like a river,

those who don't drink dawn

like a cup of spring water

or take in sunset like supper,

those who don't want to change,

let them sleep.

Rumi

With

passion pray. With

passion work. With passion make love.

With passion eat and drink and dance and play.

Why look like a dead fish

in this ocean

of

God?

Rumi

Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?

I cannot stop asking.

Rumi

All day I think about it, then at night I say it.

Where did I come from,

And what am I supposed to be doing?

I have no idea.

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,

And I intend to end up there.

Rumi

The Lover comes, the Lover comes!

Open the way for him!

He’s looking for a heart,

Let’s show him one.

I scream

“What you come to hunt is me!”

He says laughingly,

'I’m here not to hunt you but to save you.'

Rumi

Dance, when you’re broken open. 

Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. 

Dance in the middle of the fighting. 

Dance in your blood. 

Dance, when you’re perfectly free.

Rumi

From the beginning of my life

I have been looking for your face

but today I have seen it

Today I have seen

the charm, the beauty,

the unfathomable grace

of the face

that I was looking for.

Rumi

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty,

and wish to see you with a hundred eyes.

I am in the house of mercy,

and my heart is a place of prayer.

Rumi

In my vertigo, in my dizziness, in my drunken haze,

whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel,

I saw myself as the source of existence,

I was there at the beginning and I was the spirit of love.

Rumi

But learn

this custom

from the flower:

silence

your tongue.

Rumi

The garden of Love is green without limit

and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy.

Love is beyond either condition:

without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

Rumi

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

Rumi

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.

If it were always a fist or always stretched open,

you would be paralyzed.

Your deepest presence

is in every small contracting and expanding,

the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated

as bird wings.

Rumi

Your bright face is my day

Your dark curls bring the night

If you do not let me near you

I promise not go to sleep nor rise

Your magnificence has made me a wonder

Your charm has taught me the way of love

I am the progeny of Abraham

I'll find my way through fire.

Rumi

In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul

and you are that.

Rumi

I would love to kiss you.

The price of kissing is your life.

Now my loving is running toward my life shouting,

What a bargain, let's buy it.

Rumi

Late by myself, in the boat by myself

No light and no land anywhere

cloud cover thick, I try to stay

just above the surface, but I am already under

and living in the ocean of your love.

Rumi

Since I was cut from the reedbed,

I have made this crying sound.

Anyone apart from someone he loves

understands what I say.

Anyone pulled from a source

longs to go back.

Rumi

Is it your face

that adorns the garden?

Is it your fragrance

that intoxicates this garden?

Is it your spirit

that has made this brook

a river of wine?

Rumi

There is a candle in your heart,

ready to be kindled.

There is a void in your soul,

ready to be filled.

You feel it, don't you?

Rumi

There are amazing things in the ocean,

and there is one who is the ocean.

Rumi

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Rumi

There is no Love greater than Love with no object.

For then you, yourself, have become love itself.

Rumi

Because of your love

I have lost my sobriety

I am intoxicated

by the madness of love.

Rumi

In the garden

I see only your face

From trees and blossoms

I inhale only your fragrance.

Rumi

Drunk with the ecstasy of love

I can no longer tell the difference

betweeen drunkard and drink

Between lover and Beloved.

Rumi

That’s how you came here, like a star

without a name. Move across the night sky

with those anonymous lights.

Rumi

Because the idol is your face,

I have become an idolater.

Because the wine is from your cup,

I've become a drunkard.

In the existence of your love,

I have become non-existent.

This non-existence, linked to you,

is better than all existence.

Rumi

Many hearts have sought refuge from this love,

but it drags and pulls them to its own refuge.

Rumi

I am your moon and your moonlight too

I am your flower garden and your water too

I have come all this way, eager for you

Without shoes or shawl

I want you to laugh

To kill all your worries

To love you

To nourish you.

Rumi

There is no salvation for the soul

but to fall in Love.

Only lovers can escape

out of these two worlds.

This was ordained in creation.

Only from the heart

can you reach the sky:

The Rose of Glory

can grow only from the heart.

Rumi

Come, come, whoever you are.

Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving, it doesn't matter.

Ours is not a caravan of despair.

Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times.

Come, yet again, come, come.Rumi 

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