“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”

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

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

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

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

Knock, and He will open the door. Vanish, and He will make you shine like the sun.

Listen to the reed, how it tells a tale, complaining of separations.

The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.