Now is the time for the world to know
That every thought and action is sacred.

This is the time
For you to compute the impossibility
That there is anything
But Grace.

Now is the season to know
That everything you do
Is sacred.

–Hafiz

Those Who Don’t Feel This Love
pulling them like a river
those who don’t drink dawn
like a cup of spring water
or take sunset like supper
those who don’t want to change
let them sleep…
~Rumi

I am a fountain, You are my water.
I flow from You to You.

I am an eye, You are my light,
I look from You to You.

You are neither my right nor my left.
You are my foot and my arm as well.

I am a traveler, You are my road.
I go from You to You.

–Zeynep Hatun
from Women in Sufism: A Hidden Treasure

My soul wants to fly away
When Your Presence calls it so sweetly.
My soul wants to take flight
When You whisper, “Arise.”

~ Rumi

On a day when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and
the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a day.

Rumi

This is how it always is when I finish a poem.
A great silence comes over me,
and I wonder why I ever thought
to use language !

~ Rumi

When your heart is free of your limiting ego,
Then you will see the ageless Beloved.
You can not see yourself without a mirror;
Look at the Beloved,
He is the brightest mirror.

~Rumi

Yesterday I was clever,
so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise, so I am
changing myself.

~Rumi

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart,
but what is the use of a door
when there are no walls?

~Rumi

For those in love,
Muslim, Christian, and Jew do not exist.
For those in love,
faith and infidelity do not exist.

~Rumi

Speak a new language
so that the world
will be a new world.
~Rumi

O Wondrous creatures,
By what strange miracle
Do you so often
Not smile?
― Hafiz

Someone Should Start Laughing

I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
How are you?

I have a thousand brilliant lies
For the question:
What is God?

If you think that the Truth can be known
From words,

If you think that the Sun and the Ocean
Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth,

O someone should start laughing!
Someone should start wildly Laughing ‘Now!
~Hafiz

I said, O Love
I am frightened,
but it’s not you.
Love said to me,
there is nothing that is not me.
be silent.

I will whisper secrets in your ear
just nod yes
and be silent.

~Rumi