Rumi on Love 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.
Separate yourself from your own thoughts.
A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
I was dead,
Then alive,
Weeping,
Then laughing.
The power of love came into me and I became fierce like a lion,
Then tender like the evening star.
In your light I learned to love,
In your beauty how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest where no one sees you,
But sometimes I do,
And that sight becomes this art.
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
This is love,
To fly toward a secret sky,
To cause a hundred veils to fall each moment,
First to let go of life,
Finally to take a step without feet.
Listen with ears of tolerance,
See through the eyes of compassion,
Speak with the language of love.
Reason is powerless in the expression of love.
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.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
If you have not learned to be a passionate lover,
Do not count your life as lived.
On the day of reckoning,
It will not be counted.
Love is a river,
Drink from it.
Believe in love's infinite journey,
For it is your own,
For you are love.
Love is life.
Be certain that in the religion of love,
There are no believers or unbelievers.
Love embraces all.
In the house of the world is dark,
Love will find a way to create windows.
There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.
Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.
What a joy to travel the way of the heart.
Close your eyes,
Fall in love,
Stay there.
Both light and shadow are the dance of love.
Love has no cause,
It is the astrolabe of God's secrets.
Love and loving are inseparable and timeless.
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 effable place where lover,
Loving,
And love are one.
Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing,
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.
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.
Love is the sea where intellect drowns.
A lover's life lies in death.
You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.
The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.
To love is to reach God.
Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.
A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.
Your way begins at the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
If destiny comes to help you,
Love will come to meet you.
A life without love isn't a life.
A moment of happiness.
You and I sitting on the veranda.
Apparently two,
But one in soul.
You and I.
We feel the flowing water of life here,
You and I,
With the garden's beauty and the birds singing.
The stars will be watching us and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon.
You and I,
Unselfed,
Will be together,
Indifferent to idle speculation,
You and I.
The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together,
You and I,
In one form upon this earth and in another form in a timeless sweet land.
Believe in love's infinite journey,
For it is your own,
For you are love.
Love is life.
