“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”

— Rumi · Life quote

Poet and mystic · 1207 – 1273

13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic whose Masnavi is among the most influential works of Islamic literature.

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When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.