Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place! 

~ Rumi ~ 

Each individual composes the music of his own life; if he injures another he breaks the harmony and there is discord in the melody of life. 

All the trouble in the world, and all the disastrous results arising out of it, all come from lack of harmony. And this shows that the world needs harmony today more than ever before. ... The true use of music is to become musical in one's thoughts, words, and actions. We must be able to give the harmony for which the soul yearns and longs every moment. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is best given by producing harmony in one's own life.

Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he is disturbed himself, and there is a discord in the melody of his life. If he can quicken the feeling of another to joy or to gratitude, by that much he adds to his own life; he becomes himself by that much more alive. Whether conscious of it or not, his thought is affected for the better by the joy or gratitude of another, and his power and vitality increase thereby, and the music of his life grows more in harmony.

The whole of life is as music and in order to study life we must study it as music. It is not only study, it is also practice which makes man perfect. If someone tells me that a certain person is miserable or wretched or distressed, my answer will be that he is out of tune.The Sufi harmonizes with everybody whether good or bad, wise or foolish, by becoming like the key-note. All races, nations, classes and people are like a strain of music based upon one chord, where the key-note, the common interest, holds so many personalities in a single bond of harmony. By a study of life the Sufi learns and practices the nature of its harmony. He establishes harmony with the self, with others, with the universe and with the infinite. He identifies himself with another, he sees himself, so to speak, in every other being. He cares for neither blame nor praise, considering both as coming from himself. ... He overlooks the faults of others, considering that they know no better. He hides the faults of others, and suppresses any facts that would cause disharmony.

His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this enemy man gains mastery over himself; this wins for him mastery over the whole universe, because the wall standing between the self and the Almighty has been broken down. Gentleness, mildness, respect, humility, modesty, self-denial, conscientiousness, tolerance and forgiveness are considered by the Sufi as the attributes which produce harmony within one's own soul as well as within that of another.

Bowl of Saki, June 23, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

It is said that poetry is born out of love

Where there is love

the whole existence becomes a poem;

the flowers of life bloom under the light of love.

Can love ever be caused?

If it is, can it be called love?

Oh, my friend! love is always uncaused!

This is its mystery,and its purity.

Love is divine and belongs to the kingdom of God

because it is uncaused.

~ Osho ~ 

from " a cup of tea "

To truly love is to enter a holy communion in which we transcend our individual existence and partake in a greater identity

~ My Beloved Mother Shayidabegum Walji ~ 

She is the supreme embodiment of love on Earth

Love is the radiance, the fragrance 

of knowing oneself, of being oneself...

Love is overflowing joy. 

Love is when you have seen 

who you are; then there is nothing left 

except to share your being with others. 

Love is when you have seen 

that you are not separate 

from existence. Love is when you have felt 

an organic, orgasmic unity with all that is.

Love is not a relationship. 

Love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with 

anybody else. One is not in love, one is love. 

And of course when one is love, 

one is in love - but that is an outcome, 

a byproduct, that is not the source. 

The source is that one is love....

Love is a deep desire 

to bless the whole existence.

~ Osho ~ 

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. 

~ Sai Baba ~

The greatest achievement is selflessness
The greatest worth is self-mastery
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others
The greatest precept is continual self-awareness
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything
The greatest action is not confirming with the world's ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind
The greatest patience is humility
The greatest effort is not concerned with the results
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances


~ Atisha~ 
11the century Tibetan Buddhist Master

I've hidden Your Candle under my basket.

Oh Beloved, burn this basket,

Burn Burn it

Burn it completely.

Leave nothing for me to be

but The Flame itself.

~ Wahiduddin ~

Say Alhamdulillah when you sit with your family,

Because there is someone somewhere wishing to have one. ♥ 

Say Alhamdulillah when you go to work,

many people are still looking for a job. ♥

Say Alhamdulillah because you are healthy,

the sick ones wish to buy health no matter how high the price is. ♥

Say Alhamdulillah because you are still alive,

The dead wish to come back to life to do good deeds. ♥

Say Alhamdulillah because you worship ALLAH,

Others make sujood for cows! ♥

Say Alhamdulillah because You are You 

and others wish to be in your place ♥ 

O ALLAH a deep sacred thank you for everything in my life

ALHAMDULILLAH! ♥ 

~ Courtesy: Mohammad Shoaib Ansari ~

Who can deny the miracle of finding each other

in this maze of 6 billion humans?

Who can understand just how amazing

this is?

Kismet. Destiny.

A field of possibilities.

I see the Beloved in your eyes,

I watch the Beloved in your grace,

I feel the Beloved in your touch,

You and I and the Beloved, One.

~ Wahiduddin ~

Plant

So that your own heart

Will grow.

Love 

So God will think,

"Ahhhhhh,

I got kin in that body!

I should start inviting that soul over

For coffee and

Rolls."

Sing

Because this is a food

Our starving world

Needs.

Laugh

Because that is the purest

Sound.

~ Hafiz Shirazi ~ 

You can stay in calm, serene states of love no matter what emotional 

states other people are in by radiating soul love. When you offer love, 

other people's energy cannot harm you. From this state of love you will 

do what is good for yourself and your soul, rather than what other people want you to do. Whether other people change or respond to your love is not important. Every time you offer love, you awaken your heart centres. Decide whether or not you want to continue to be around people who do not honour you. Believe that all your relationships can be loving, supporting, and enriching.

~ Orin through Sanaya Roman - Soul Love ~ 

Those who are inclined to do kindness in life must not discriminate among the people around them, between those to whom they must be kind and those to whom they need not be kind. However kind and good a person may be to those he likes, to those he wishes to be kind to, he cannot for this be called kind by nature; real kindness is that which gushes out from the heart to the worthy and to the unworthy. In the Quran it is said, 'God alone is rich, and everyone on earth is poor.' Man is poor with his myriad needs, his life's demands, the wants of his nature; and when one keenly observes life, it seems that the whole world is poverty-stricken, everyone struggling for the self. In this struggle of life, if a man can be considerate enough to keep his eyes open to all around him and see in what way he can be of help to them, he becomes rich; he inherits the kingdom of God.

Although life seems to make this soul indifferent, it cannot really become indifferent. It is this state, working through this life, that gives a man a certain feeling, to which only a Hindu word is applicable, no other language having a word which can render this particular meaning so adequately. The Hindus call it Vairagya from which the term Vairagi has come. Vairagi means a person who has become indifferent; and yet indifference is not the word for it. It describes a person who has lost the value in his eyes of all that attracts the human being. It is no more attractive to him; it no more enslaves him. He may still be interested in all things of this life, but is not bound to them. His connection with people in the world is to serve them, not asking for their service; to love them, not asking for love; to be friends with them, not asking for friendship.

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan ~ 

God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your true and natural state." Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward, and sacrifice your mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being. For this to be your own presently lived experience, Self-Inquiry is the one direct and immediate way.

~ Sri Ramana Maharishi ~ 

Be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.” 

~ The Buddha ~

"As a mother would risk her life to protect her child, her only child, even so should one cultivate a limitless heart with regard to all beings. So with a boundless heart should one cherish all living beings; radiating kindness over the entire world." 

~ The Buddha, Sutta Nipata I, 8 ~

Inside this new love, die.

Your way begins on the other side.

Become the sky.

Take an axe to the prison wall.

Escape.

Walk out like somebody suddenly born into color.

Do it now.

You’re covered with thick cloud.

Slide out the side.

Die,

and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign

that you’ve died.

Your old life was a frantic running

from silence.

The speechless full moon

comes out now.

~ Beloved Rumi ~

On this day of your life, we believe God wants you to know that you are only as free as you imagine yourself to be.

There is nothing ''out there'' that's holding you down, - you are limiting yourself only with your own imagination. And your greatest limits are not even the ''cannot'' and the ''should not'', but the places where your imagination hasn't yet gone at all. There has never been a better time for you to open your eyes, let the imagination soar and see what more is possible!

~ Courtesy: Let your light shine, Facebook ~ 

The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed. 

It's a tiny seed, but when it falls on good soil it produces 

a large plant and becomes a shelter for birds of the sky.

~ Beloved Jesus ~

Forget your life. Say God is Great. 

Get up.

You think you know what time it is. 

It’s time to pray.

You’ve carved so many little figurines, too many.

Don’t knock on any random door like a beggar.

Reach your long hands out to another door, 

beyond where you go on the street, 

the street where everyone says, 

“How are you?”

and no one says How aren’t you?

Tomorrow you’ll see 

what you’ve broken and torn tonight,

thrashing in the dark. Inside you

there’s an artist you don’t know about.

He’s not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

If you are here unfaithfully with us,

you’re causing terrible damage.

If you’ve opened your loving to God’s love,

you’re helping people you don’t know

and have never seen.

Is what I say true ? 

Say yes quickly,

if you know, if you’ve known it

from before the beginning of the universe.

~ Beloved Rumi ~ 

From Open Secret

Versions by Coleman Barks 

Courtesy: Andy Lal

The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it. The moon is within me, and so is the sun.

The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it.

So long as man clamours for the I and the Mine, his works are as naught:

When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.

For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge:

When that comes, then work is put away.

The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers.

The musk is in the deer, but it seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass. 

~ Saint Kabir ~ 

Love is the only miracle there is. Love is the ladder from hell to heaven. Love learned well, you have learned all. Love missed, you missed your whole life. People who ask about God are not in fact asking about God; rather than asking, they are declaring that they have not known what love is. One who knows love has known the Beloved: love is the insight into the Beloved. One who asks about light, simply says that he is blind. One who asks about God, simply says his heart has not bloomed into love. 

Never ask about God. If you cannot see him that simply shows you don't have eyes to see. If you cannot hear him that simply shows you are deaf. If you cannot touch him that simply shows you are without hands -- that you don't have any sensitivity. God is not the problem, God cannot be the problem. God is not far away, God is herenow. All that is, is in God and is God -- so how can God be the problem? God is not to be searched: where will you search him? He is everywhere -- you just have to learn how to open your eyes of love. Once love has penetrated your heart, God is there. In the thrill of love is the Beloved: in the vision of love is the vision of God. 

So God is the only real inner alchemy: it transforms your material life into the divine. It is the only alchemy, I say, because it changes the baser metal into gold. Without love, life is a dull affair, grey -- with no colors, with no songs, with no celebrations. One can drag and one can hope only for death: death will come and relieve you of your dragging long affair. Love brings color: the grey suddenly becomes a rainbow, explodes into a thousand and one colors, and the drab and the dull become psychedelic. Love changes the whole climate of your inner being -- and with that change the whole existence is changed. Nothing is changed on the outside -- but once you are full of love you have a totally different existence available to you.

~ Osho ~ 

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself at the foot of the glorious King.

When you lose yourself

before the King

you will become the King.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself.

Escape from the black cloud

that surrounds you.

~ Beloved Rumi ~ 
Courtesy Rumi Quotes Facebook

This fleeting world coming and going

is but a distraction. Beyond all these

changes is That Which is Changeless.

So, let your heart sing and dance

and raise your glass high in celebration of 

The Almighty One.

~ Wahiduddin ~

Do you hear what the violin

says about longing?

The same as the stick, "I was once

a green branch in the wind."

We are all far from home.

Language is our caravan bell.

~ Beloved Rumi ~

Courtesy: Rumi Quotes, Facebook

Be still, listen!

Let go of selfish desires and passions,

so that you may become

a fountain of Loving-Kindness.

If they cast you into a well,

let it be as a banquet,

let it be as a rose garden,

see only The Beloved.

~ Wahiduddin ~

Put aside your clever schemes!

O lover, be mindless! Become mad!

Dive into the heart of the flame!

Become fearless! Be like a moth!

Turn away from the self

and tear down the house! 

Then, come and dwell in the house of love!

Be a lover! Live with lovers!

Clean your chest from all hostility.

Wash it seven times. 

Then, fill it with the wine of love!

Be a chalice for love! Be a chalice!

You must be all love

to be worthy of the beloved."

~ Beloved Rumi ~ 

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now,

Be all – worlds dissolve into your 

stainless endless radiance,

Frail living leaves burn with your brighter

than cold stares –

Make me your servant, your breath, your core.

~ Beloved Rumi ~ 

The path of Love is without end;

If you value life then stay away.

If you give your life, then learn,

A thousand are given in return.

He who shies away and saves his life

Shall be forever regretful of his fate.

Love of the Beloved enters my heart,

Announces that tonight is the night.

If your heart is annihilated for your Beloved,

Then peace is being restless and distraught.

Your first step in the field of Love

Is to be slain or reach the cross!

And then you will be burnt, so you can see

That the Light of Love shines in the fire’s heart.

And when you become ashes and dust,

Then you will dance reflected by the Sun.

~ Attâr ~

Love seeketh not itself to please, 
nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair 

~ William Blake ~

To See a World in a Grain of Sand 

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, 

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand 

And Eternity in an hour!

~ William Blake ~