- Poet | September 30, 1207 - December 17, 1273
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi
LoveYourselfYouFindTaskWithin
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.
LoveAloneI AmTryExplainLovers
I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
I AmBoundariesWithinWestExist
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
SomeoneDustRugAgainstBeats
Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
LoveFindWillWayThroughOwn
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
HomeKissGoGroundAgainGo Home
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
StrengthStrongerDesireTwoWithin
The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.
HeartEyeBodyWayTwoThrough
Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.
LoveHeartPlantSpiritAnything
You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.
StarsYourselfYouKnowLuckyCome
Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.
GodAttentionYouEnvyWillMay
This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.
DayYouKnowWillEssenceReckoning
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