To know God

If you want to know God, then turn your face toward your friend, and don't look away.

Rumi

Open the window in the centre of your chest and let spirit move in and out.

Rumi

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Rumi

Gnosis

Gnosis is experiencing the fire directly, not prattling on about smoke. All this pompous noise about spiritual "authority" is only a way of saying to the world, "I can't see anything. Please excuse me."

Rumi

The spiritual seeker surrenders to wonder

The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, but it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether. Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to wonder.

Rumi

When you think you know who you are

Whenever you think you know who you are, run away from that self-image and embrace Him of whom nothing can be said.

Rumi

Whisperings of desire

The seductive whisperings of desire are the howls of a wolf that can tear a man to pieces.

Rumi

The ocean of consciousness is wide

The ocean of Consciousness is wide and our forms bob on its surface like empty cups, until we become full with its waters, and then we sink to its depths.

Rumi

The light is the same

The lamps are different but the light is the same.

Rumi