Personal avowals

• Solitude is a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words. Coleman Barks (*1937) US American poet, translator of Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi and Persian mystics, newly translated poems by Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, The Soul of Rumi. A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems, HarperOne, 2001, reprint edition 17. September 2002

• I love my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case heart might stop, mind can forget, I love them with my Soul. Soul never stops or forgets.
  Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, theologian jurist, poet, cited in: Rumi Poems, presented by the website "Soul of Truth 11*11"

• I am the slave of whoever will not, at each stage, imagine that he has arrived at the end of his goal. Many stages have to be left behind before the traveler reaches his destination. Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, editor, The Mathnawí of Jalálu'ddín Rúmí, volume 4, part 7, S. 248, 1940

• When I am silent, I fall into that place where everything is music.
  Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, cited in: AZ Quotes

Recommendations

• The Prophet said in a loud voice: Tie the camel's knot and trust in God.
  Alternative version: Trusting in God, bind the camel's knee.
  Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, R.A. Nicholson, translator, The Masnavi. Book One, 913, 947, 1898, Gibb Memorial Series, London, 1926, Oxford University Press, 1st edition 10. July 2008

• Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths. Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, 'Another city'. A Selection of
  Poems from the Persian, S. 29, Lulu.com, paperback edition 22. June 2014

• Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, 300 Rumi quotes, presented by the website Ideapod

• Run from what's comfortable.
  Forget safety.
  Live where you fear to live.
  Destroy your reputation.
  Be notorious.
  I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.
  Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

• Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

• Be pure emptiness.
  What is inside that? you ask.
  Silence is all I can say.
  Lovers have some secrets
  That they keep.
  Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, The Soul of Rumi. A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems, HarperOne, 2001, reprint edition 17. September 2002

• When love is not accepted move on;
  when love is not appreciated walk away;
  hopefully time will teach what real, true love is.

• 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. Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

• Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, 300 Rumi quotes, presented by the website Ideapod

• There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen. Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, 300 Rumi quotes, presented by the website Ideapod

• Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world. Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

• When you go through a hard period,
  When everything seems to oppose you,
  When you feel you can't bear even one minute,
  never give up
  Because it is the time and place that the course will divert.

• When a man is busy in earnest, he is unconscious of his pain.
  I mention this insensibility to pain, so you may know how much the body resembles a garment.
  Go, seek the one who wears it; don't kiss a piece of cloth.
  Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, Kabir Helminski, editor,
  The Pocket Rumi, S. 168, Shambhala, Boston, London, paperback edition, 11. November 2008

Warning

• Didn't I tell you not to be satisfied with the veil of this world? [...]
  Didn't I tell you?
  They will accuse you of all the wrongdoings, they will call you ugly names, they will make you forget it is me, who
  is the source of your happiness.
  Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, cited in: Shahram T. Shiva, translator, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God. Passionate Poems of Rumi, Jain Publishing Company, 1. October 1999; cited in: Quotepark

Conclusion

• If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
  Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim poet, Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Paradoxical conclusion

• We are the mirror as well as the face in it.
  We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity.
  We are pain and what cures pain, both.
  We are the sweet, cold water and the jar that pours.
  Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, theologian jurist, poet, Coleman Barks, author, John Moyne, author, Open Secret. Versions of Rumi, Shambhala Publications, Boulder, Colorado, revised edition 21. September 1999; cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Poems

• Guest House
  This being human is a guest house.
  Every morning a new arrival.
  A joy, a depression, a meanness,
  some momentary awareness comes
  as an unexpected visitor.
  Welcome and entertain them all!
  Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
  who violently sweep your house
  empty of its furniture,
  still, treat each guest honorably.
  He may be clearing you out
  for some new delight.
  The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
  meet them at the door laughing,
  and invite them in.
  Be grateful for whoever comes,
  because each has been sent
  as a guide from beyond.
  Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, Coleman Barks (*1937)
  US American poet, translator of Rumi and Persian mystics, John Moyne, translator The Essential Rumi, HarperOne, 1995,
  new expanded edition, paperback issue 28. May 2004

• With the Beloved's water of life, no illness remains.
  In the Beloved's rose garden of union, no thorn remains.
  They say there is a window from one heart to another.
  How can there be a window where no wall remains?
  Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, cited in: Stine Koppernæs,
  Be the Alchemist of Your Life: Dare to Go Within, S. 69, Balboa Press, 2015

• Dance, when you're broken open.
  Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
  Dance in the middle of the fighting.
  Dance in your blood.
  Dance when you're perfectly free.
  Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, Rumi, presented by the website islamiccenterofyubacity.org

• '''Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet,
  Through Love all that is copper will be gold,
  Through Love all dregs will become wine,
  Through Love all pain will turn to medicine.

• I have lived on the lip of insanity,
  wanting to know reasons,
  knocking on a door.
  It opens.
  I've been knocking from the inside!