Rumi Quotes

Sometimes getting lost is how you’re found.

Rumi Quote on Gifts and How Nothing Seems Right

“You have no idea how hard I have looked for a gift to bring you. Nothing seemed right. What’s the point of bringing gold to a gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It’s no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I’ve brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.”
Rumi

Beyond the Quote (Day 400)

Read these words and remember your mirror. You are not without the gold that you so desperately seek; it is already within you. You are not without a source to quench the thirst of your desire; for you are the source itself. The gifts that you so longingly crave do not come from others; they come from inside you.

For if you don’t, what are you doing?

FYI — This post isn’t about gold.

Get it?

Rumi Quote on Living in the Heart and How The Words That Follow “I Am” Follow You.

“As you live deeper in the heart, the mirror gets clearer and clearer.”
Rumi

Beyond the Quote (267/365)

Once it happened where a presenter was having technical difficulties with his presentation. The projector wasn’t connecting to the computer properly and the slideshow that he prepared wouldn’t show. As the time was ticking off the clock for his allotted slot, he decided to spontaneously fill the time with an exercise. He asked everybody to turn to the person next to them and ask them to finish the following statement: “I am…”