This being human is a guest-house. Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, Who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture. Still, treat each guest honorably. Who may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ~ Rumi I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep it burning. I said: what about my heart? God said: Tell me what you hold inside it? I said: pain and sorrow? He said: ..stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ~ Rumi Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds. ~ Rumi

Be silent, Only the Hand of God Can remove The burdens of your heart.

~ Rumi Whatever happens to you, dont fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You cant see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path. Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want. ~Shams Tabrizi I know you're tired but come, this is the way. ~ Rumi The universe is a complete unique entity. Everything and everyone is bound together with some invisible strings. Do not break anyones heart; do not look down on weaker than you. Ones sorrow at the other side of the world can make the entire world suffer; ones happiness can make the entire world smile. ~Shams Tabrizi Mistakes are the entrance of discovery. ~ Rumi Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full. Shams Tabrizi " Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." -Orisen Swett Marden "He who makes easy what is difficult, Allah will make it easy for him in the world and the Hereafter ... and Allah helps the servant so long as he helps his brother" [Sahih Muslim, Book 35, Number 6518]

Renounce the world and Allah will love you, and renounce what people possess and the people will love you. [Sunan Ibn Majah, Book of Asceticism, Number 4102, Sahih] Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it is stupid. -Albert Einstein Very little grows on jagged rock. be ground, be crumbled. wildflowers will come up where you are. ~ Rumi "What is Faith? When your good deed pleases you and your evil deed grieves you, you are a believer. What is Sin? When a thing disturbs the peace of your heart... give it up." -Prophet Muhammad "The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings." -Rumi When you engage in work that taps your talent and fuels your passion that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet therein lies your voice, your calling, your souls code. ~Stephen Covey I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited. ~Sylvia Plath Kudhi ko kar buland itna kay har taqdeer say pehlay Khuda banday say poochay bataa teri raza kya hai (Elevate your soul to such levels of purity that God asks you for what you want in life instead of giving it to you. Your will and Gods will are one. Allama Iqbal "I hold it true that thoughts are things; They're endowed with bodies and breath and wings:

And that we send them forth to fill The world with good results, or ill. That which we call our secret thought Speeds forth to earth's remotest spot, Leaving its blessings or it's woes Like tracks behind it as it goes. We build our future, thought by thought, For good or ill, yet know it not. Yet so the universe was wrought. Thought is another name for fate; Choose then thy destiny and wait, For love brings love and hate brings hate." ..Henry Van "O Beloved, yours is the pleasure of this world and the way to the next." -Rumi "You dont have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You dont have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You dont have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You dont have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts. You have to pay your electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But thats all." - Cheryl Strayed There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness. ~ Rumi The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart. The light which fills the heart is the light of God. ~ Rumi

School of Truth O fool, do something, so you won't just stand there looking dumb. If you are not traveling and on the road, how can you call yourself a guide? In the School of Truth, one sits at the feet of the Master of Love. So listen, son, so that one day you may be an old father, too! All this eating and sleeping has made you ignorant and fat; By denying yourself food and sleep, you may still have a chance. Know this: If God should shine His lovelight on your heart, I promise you'll shine brighter than a dozen suns. And I say: wash the tarnished copper of your life from your hands; To be Love's alchemist, you should be working with gold. Don't sit there thinking; go out and immerse yourself in God's sea. Having only one hair wet with water will not put knowledge in that head. For those who see only God, their vision Is pure, and not a doubt remains. Even if our world is turned upside down and blown over by the wind, If you are doubtless, you won't lose a thing. O Hafiz, if it is union with the Beloved that you seek, Be the dust at the Wise One's door, and speak! Anas heard the Prophet salallahu alaihi wasallam say: Allah, the Exalted, has said: O son of Adam! Certainly I shall continue to pardon thee so long as thou supplicatest Me and hopest (for My forgiveness), whatever may be thy faults and sins, I dont care. O son of Adam, even if thy sins pile up as high as the sky, and thou askest for My forgiveness, I will forgive thee. O son of Adam, if thou comest to Me with an earthful of defaults and meetest Me, not associating anything with Me, I will come to thee, with an earthful of forgiveness. 1. Narrated Abu Huraira: Allahs Apostle said, When Allah created the creations, He wrote with Him on His Throne: My Mercy has preceded My Anger. Sahih Al-Bukhari Book 93 Hadith 545 Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow

over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. ~ Rumi