Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi Sayings

• There's courage involved if you want
  to become truth.
   
• Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
  there is a field. I'll meet you there.
   
• This divine love,
  beckons us
  to a world beyond
  only lovers can see
  with their eyes of fiery passion.
   
• For awhile we lived with people,
  but we saw no sign in them of the faithfulness we wanted.
  It's better to hide completely within
  as water hides in metal, as fire hides in rock.
   
• Any soul that drank the nectar of your passion was lifted.
  From that water of life he is in a state of elation.
  Death came, smelled me, and sensed your fragrance instead.
  From then on, death lost all hope of me.
   
• 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.
   
• Any lifetime that is spent without seeing the master
  Is either death in disguise or a deep sleep.
  The water that pollutes you is poison;
  The poison that purifies you is water.
   
• Until you've found pain, you won't reach the cure
  Until you've given up life, you won't unite with
  the supreme soul
  Until you've found fire inside yourself, like the Friend,
  You won't reach the spring of life, like Khezr.
   
• 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.
   
• Although I may try to describe Love
  when I experience it I am speechless.
  Although I may try to write about Love
  I am rendered helpless;
  my pen breaks and the paper slips away
  at the ineffable place
  where Lover, Loving and Loved are one.
  Every moment is made glorious
  by the light of Love.