Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore, not by book, nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries comes after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.
Quotations
Rumi
O 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.
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.
The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendour you need to burn in the fire of love.
Nothing I say can explain to you divine love. Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with the heart and soul there is no such thing as separation!
At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door, and open the love-window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Those who are pure in heart achieve God-consciousness; they are truly and actually aware of God at the centre of their being.
