Rumi Gems

 "A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home." ~ Rumi ~Art work by Debbie Marie Arambula

After despair, many hopes flourish

just as after rain

thousands of roses open.

Surrender to the Almighty –

and be led into life. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

"Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love. If you are too careful, Love will not find you." ~Rumi

Cartwheeling Through Life has included Rumi in at least 159 of 1337 post in the last 12+ years

“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.” ~Rumi

“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.” ~Rumi

"Glorious  is the moment we sit in the palace, You and I.

Two forms, two faces, but a single soul: You and I.

The flowers will blaze and bird cries shower us with immortality

The moment we enter the garden, You and I.

All the stars of heaven will run out to gaze at us

As we burn like the full moon itself, You and I.

The fire-winged birds of heaven will rage with envy

In that place where we laugh ecstatically, You and I.

What a miracle, You and I, entwined in the same nest;

What a miracle, You and I: one Love, one Lover, one Fire,

In this world and the next, in an ecstasy without end. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi" 

How lovely...

"In the driest whitest stretch of pain's infinite desert I lost my sanity and found this rose." ~ Rumi

Jalal-ud-Din Rumi : 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Khorasan, Iran. (Sept 30, 1207 Dec 17, 1273, Konya, Turkey source

"Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distance. That's not for human beings." ~ Rumi

"Love is a tree with branches in forever, with roots in eternity and a trunk nowhere at all." ~ Rumi 

"My Face is everywhere – and all you are gazing at is roses." - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

"Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being."  listen here

Poems to Awaken the Love Within Us - click here

Quiet... but... the 

Roots are Riotous" ~ Rumi

"Set out now, while you're strong, on the heart's vast plain:

You'll never discover joy on the plain of the body.

The heart's the only house of safety, my friends:

It has fountains, and rose gardens within rose gardens.

Turn to the heart and go forward, travelers of the night;

there's where you'll find trees and streams of living water." - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you : Don't go back to sleep!

You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep!

People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,

The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep!” ― Rumi (Ken's video)

"Unknown, in the Un-manifest" click here for the entire poem

"Very little grows on jagged rock. be ground, be crumbled. wildflowers will come up where you are." ~ Rumi

Video: click here Ken (who often  posted on Instagram October 7, 2019

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ~Rumi

"eXpanded further than the last star / All that is left of Rumi is only / This garden laughing with fruit."

"...You worry too much. Your arms are filled with treasures of all kinds." ~Rumi

Zakir Hossain Reads "Only Breath by Jalaluddin Rumi