Rumi
Let yourself be silently drawnby the stronger pull of what you really love. —Rumi, The Essential Rumi. Trans. Coleman Barks. HarperSanFrancisco (1994).
Category: Persian Culture
Rumi
Come, come, whoever you are.Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.It doesn’t matter.Ours is not a caravan of despair.Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times.Come, yet again, come, come. —Rumi
Rumi
Alone, every person stays quiet.Nobody speaks to a closed door. — Rumi, from “The Talking,” Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart (HarperOne, 2007)
Hafez
If you asked for a few words of comfort andguidance I would quickly kneel by your sideand offer you a whole book … — Hafez, from “Companion for LIfe,” Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems, eds. Phyliis Cole-Davis & Ruby R. Wilson (Grayson Books, 2017)
Forugh Farrokhzad
In a room the size of one lonelinessmy heartthe size of one lovelooks at the simple pretexts of its happiness,at the fading of the beauty of the flowers in the vaseat the sapling you planted in the garden of our houseat the song of the canariesthat sing to the size of one window. —Forugh Farrokhzad,… Continue reading Forugh Farrokhzad
Forough Farrokhzad
Life is perhaps lighting up a cigarettein the narcotic repose between two love-makingsor the absent gaze of a passerbywho takes off his hat to another passerbywith a meaningless smile and a good morning — Forough Farrokhzad, from “Another Birth,” Another Birth: Selected Poems. (Zabankadeh Publications 2001)
Rumi
There are amazing things in the ocean,and there is one who is the ocean. — , from “Earsight,” Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart (HarperOne, 2007)
Forough Farrokhzad
Life is perhaps lighting up a cigarettein the narcotic repose between two love-makingsor the absent gaze of a passerbywho takes off his hat to another passerbywith a meaningless smile and a good morning — Forough Farrokhzad, from “Another Birth,” Another Birth and Other Poems. (Mage Publishers; Updated and REV ed. edition March 24, 2010)Forough Farrokhzad
Rumi
Choose love! Choose love!Enter the rose garden,let your soul make peace with the thorns. — Rumi, The Forbidden Rumi: The Suppressed Poems of Rumi on Love, Heresy, and Intoxication. (Inner Traditions; Tra edition, February 14, 2006)
Rumi
Make me sweet againFragrant, fresh, wildAnd thankful for any small event — Rumi
The Vale of Soul-Making 