37 Quotes by Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

For without you, I swear, the townHas become like a prison to me.Distraction and the mountainAnd the desert, all I desire.

Oh sky, without me, do not change,Oh moon, without me, do not shine;Oh earth, without me, do not grow,Oh time, without me, do not go....Oh, you cannot go, without me.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower.So the nightbirds will start singing.

For the thirst to possess your love,Is worth my blood a hundred times.

Be quiet now and wait.It may be that the ocean one,the one we desire so to move into and become,desires us out here on land a little longer,going our sundry roads to the shore.

Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

I am another you, you are another me.

Anything that comes and goes, rises and sets,is not what I love.

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