Ruminations of Rumi

“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.” 

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing 
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.” 

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” 

“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.” 

“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.” 

“But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.”