Why do you stay in prisonwhen the door is so wide open?Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence.


Jalal ad-Din Rumi

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RUMI
THE ONE THING YOU MUST DO

There is one thing in this world you must never forget to do. I...
RUMI
We watch a sunlight dust dance,
and we try to be that lively,
but nobody knows what musi...
RUMI
Words are ways we add up breath, counting stress and syllable with our exacting musical knack that t...
RUMI
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and...
RUMI
If you want money more than anything,
you will be bought and sold.

If you have a gre...
RUMI
I love this world, even as I hear the great wind of leaving it rising, for there is a grainy taste I...
RUMI
We are the the night ocean filled with glints of light. We are the space between the fish and the mo...
RUMI
When a bird gets free, it does not go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage.
RUMI
Every part of you has a secret language. Your hands and your feet say what you have done. Every need...
RUMI
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, whe...
RUMI
Sometimes I Do In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance insid...
RUMI
You left ground and sky weeping,
mind and soul full of grief.

No one can take your p...
RUMI
every experience will fill with immediacy. Because I love this, I am never bored. Beauty constantly ...
RUMI
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RUMI
The way of love is not
a subtle argument.

The door there
is devastation. RUMI
On a day
when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and the world is full of be...
RUMI
But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms RUMI
Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.
RUMI
Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.
RUMI
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
RUMI
I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
RUMI
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
RUMI
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of yo...
RUMI
Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
RUMI
Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.
RUMI
Brother, stand the pain.
Escape the poison of your impulses.
The sky will bow to your beau...
RUMI
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
RUMI
Heartsick, heartbroken—
To know love is to know pain.
What could be more common?
E...
RUMI
The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
RUMI
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
RUMI
You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals...
RUMI
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
RUMI
If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.
RUMI
Let silence take you to the core of life.
RUMI
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
RUMI
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
RUMI
Drunks fear the police
but the police are drunk too.
RUMI
I am merely a guest born in this world, to know the secrets that lie beyond it.
RUMI
The cure for pain is in the pain.
RUMI
Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
RUMI
I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes ca...
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I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest somepl...
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The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departm...
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and...
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