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

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...

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...

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...

The lion is most handsome when looking for food

The lion is most handsome when looking for food

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.

To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men...

Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men...

When you drink from the stream remember the spring.

When you drink from the stream remember the spring.

The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the...

The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim the...