Rumi

…my heart sinks like a comb into wave after wave of your silky hair. – Rumi

If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow. – Rumi

I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled. – Rumi

Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing. – Rumi

Tonight the moon kisses the stars. – Rumi

And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here. – Rumi

Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one. – Rumi

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruit other than sorrow and joy. – Rumi

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. – Rumi

Dance in the middle of fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free. – Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears. – Rumi

If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves. – Rumi

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. – Rumi

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. – Rumi

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else. – Rumi

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. – Rumi

Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness. – Rumi

You go from village to village on your horse asking everyone, Has anyone seen my horse? – Rumi