TRIBUTE TO MY FAVORITE:: RUMI

THE LEGEND OF THE 13^TH CENTURY 

 BEST of Rumi (my personal favorite quote)

  1.    “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.” 

 2.  “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.” 

 3..    “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl           through life?”

 4.     “When I am with you, we stay up all night.

                When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
         Praise God for those two insomnias!
          And the difference between them.” 

      5.      “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and         death.”

  6.  “I want to see you.

        Know your voice.

      Recognize you when you
       first come 'round the corner.

       Sense your scent when I come 
       into a room you've just left.

       Know the lift of your heel,
       the glide of your foot.

      Become familiar with the way 
      you purse your lips
      then let them part, 
      just the slightest bit,
     when I lean in to your space
     and kiss you.

    I want to know the joy 
    of how you whisper 
    "more” 

       
 7.     “silence is the language of god,   

                  all else is poor translation.”

         8.  “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

        

         9.  “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” 

         10.  “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing 

           and rightdoing there is a field.
           I'll meet you there.

          When the soul lies down in that grass

11.  “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.

       12.   “Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours     is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again come , come.” 

  by Mayank Kashyap