Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it. Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.

Quote by Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

Topics: Growth Quotes

All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I...

All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I...

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all...

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all...

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you...

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you...

People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love...

People so seldom say I love you And then it's either too late or love...

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched...

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched...

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to...

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to...

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has...

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has...

One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a...

One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a...

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I...

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I...

The lion is most handsome when looking for food

The lion is most handsome when looking for food

To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.

To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing...

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing...

Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power...

Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power...

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less,...

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less,...

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside...

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside...

You are so weak. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave...

You are so weak. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave...

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you...

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you...

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

Freedom from worries and surcease from strain are illusions that always inhabit the distance.

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is...

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is...

Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we...

Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we...

No man is to lower himself by showing tolerance towards any sort of heretic, least...

No man is to lower himself by showing tolerance towards any sort of heretic, least...