evolution

the slow dance into my becoming

[searchingvsfinding]

What you most want,

what you travel around wishing to find,

lose yourself as lovers lose themselves,

and you’ll be that.

Farīd ud-Dīn Aṭṭār (1145 – 1221).

[rumiswisdom]

In the orchard and rose garden I see your face In the taste of Sweetness I feel your kiss In the shadows of passion I am embraced by your love

Rumi (via rumiswisdom)

[middleeasternpoetry]

Words are a pretext; it is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. - Rumi

*3 weeks-old newborn sleeping happily with his cousin in the Congo, Kinshasa.

[wordsnquotes]

Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.

Rumi (via wordsnquotes)

[middleeasternpoetry]

I swear my dear son, no one in the entire world is as precious as you are. Look at that mirror. Take a good look at yourself. Who else is there above and beyond you? Now give yourself a kiss and with sweet whispers fill your ears to the brim. Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence. You can never overdo praising your own soul. You can never over-pamper your heart. You are both the father and the son, the sugar and the sugar cane. Who else but you? Please tell me who else can ever take your place? Now give yourself a smile. What is the worth of a diamond if it doesn’t shine? How can I ever put a price on the diamond that you are? - Rumi

[tawakkull]

“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. 
Impatience means to be shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.”

Rumi (via -tawakkul-)

[tawakkull]

“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. 
Impatience means to be shortsighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.”

Rumi (via -tawakkul-)

[mirtagpa]

Awake, my dear. Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of Light And let it breathe.

Hafiz

[mirtagpa]

How can you ever hope to know the Beloved without becoming in every cell the Lover?

Rumi

[lazyyogi]

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Hermann Hesse (via lazyyogi)

[oofpoetry]

Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.

Rumi  (via ohfairies)

[the-healing-nest]

Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space.

Rumi (via yeshecholwa)

[mirtagpa]

Shine like the whole Universe is yours

Rumi

[mirtagpa]

Lord of Beauty, Lord of Grace, Enter my soul like one who enters a garden in bloom.

Rumi

[mirtagpa]

...But if a mirror ever makes  you sad  you should know that it does  not know you.

Kabir

[mirtagpa]

You are the fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground.  You make my raggedness silky.

Rumi

[mirtagpa]

I know no other way than to abandon myself to your embrace.

Rumi