Me and Rumi

Rumi was a Persain poet who lived in the 13th century (1207–1273). He was also a jurist and a theologian. During a 25 year period, he composed over 70,000 verses of poetry. The main themes of his poems are love and longing for unity. He believed that music, dance and poetry were a path for reaching God.Rumi's work has been translated into many languages around the world, including Spanish, Arabic, German, Turkish, Russian, and English, among others. His works are being performed at concerts, readings, workshops, dance performances, and in other artist creations.

• Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
• It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
• Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
• Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
• The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you; Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want; Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.
• 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.
• We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
• Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything.
• Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form
• The rain-weeping and the sun burning twine together to make us grow.
• Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
• When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
• Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.
• Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond...
• Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
• At last you have departed and gone to the Unseen. What marvelous route did you take from this world?
• Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work.