The Poetry of Rumi

“Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.”

“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?”

“Why are you knocking at every other door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.”

“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”

“This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.”

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

“If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”