What is your favorite snippet, quote, fragment, or poem by Rumi?

“That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.”

“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.”
This quote helped redirect my locus of control – which as a victim of childhood sexual abuse was external – to help me redefine myself as an independent adult, able to give and receive unconditional love.

Oh my goodness… I LOVE Rumi. This one I found at Denver Airport:

“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 got 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.”

Oh, I love Rumi as well. A few of my favourites:

“Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.”

“Be like melting snow—wash yourself of yourself.”

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”

Some Kiss We Want

There is some kiss we want with
our whole lives, the touch of
spirit on the body. Seawater
begs the pearl to break its shell.

And the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild darling! 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.

From Soul of Rumi

* ~ *

The Lovers
will drink wine night and day.
They will drink until they can
tear away the veils of intellect and
melt away the layers of shame and modesty.
When in Love,
body, mind, heart and soul don’t even exist.
Become this,
fall in Love, and you will not be separated again.

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

Love, love, love Rumi (and Neruda)