Be Melting Snow

“I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I've been knocking from the inside.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“People want you to be happy.
Don't keep serving them your pain!

If you could untie your wings
and free your soul...

you and everyone around you
would fly up like doves.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi

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

“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi