Rumi Quotes

The Cloud Weeps, And Then The Garden Sprouts. The Baby Cries, And The Mother's Milk Flows. The Nurse Of Creation Has Said, Let Them Cry A Lot.
This Rain-weeping And Sun-burning Twine Together To Make Us Grow. Keep Your Intelligence White-hot And Your Grief Glistening, So Your Life Will Stay Fresh. Cry Easily Like A Little Child.
Let Body Needs Dwindle And Soul Decisions Increase. Diminish What You Give Your Physical Self. Your Spiritual Eye Will Begin To Open.
When The Body Empties And Stays Empty, God Fills It With Musk And Mother-of-pearl. That Way A Man Gives His Dung And Gets Purity.
Listen To The Prophets, Not To Some Adolescent Boy. The Foundation And The Walls Of Spiritual Life Are Made Of Self-denials And Disciplines.
Stay With Friends Who Support You In These. Talk With Them About Sacred Texts, And How You're Doing, And How They're Doing, And Keep Your Practices Together.

Related Authors

• Beatrice Bruteau
• Chard DeNiord
• Dan Woods
• Dennis Peron
• Hatem A. Aly
• James Wylder
• Kyuugou
• Michael Gellert
• Paul Samuelson
• Theodore Gray
• Uma Krishnaswami
• Vickie Valladares

Related Topics

• Quotes About Podcasts

  I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If — Sam Trammell

• Quotes About Life And Fighting Cancer

  Table 29.1. "AA" (Avoid/Acquire) of Fighting Cancer. In closing, let me also share my new found philosophy of life: A good life is summarized in three "H's." They are, in — Donald I. Abrams

• Drizzt Do Urden Quotes

  Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Drizzt Do'Urden — R.A. Salvatore

• Sea Images And Quotes

  The crowding of children into insufficient, often squalid spaces seems an inexplicable anomaly in the United States. Images of spaciousness and majesty, of endless plains and soaring mountains, fill our — Jonathan Kozol

• True Good Quotes

  An education, then, is a constellation of practices, rituals, and routines that inculcates a particular vision of the good life by inscribing or infusing that vision into the heart (the — James K.A. Smith