“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”— Rumi“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”— Rumi“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”— Rumi“What you seek is seeking you.”— Rumi“The heart is a thousand-stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.”— Hafiz“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely, the astonishing light of your own being.”— Hafiz“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”— Rumi“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”— Rumi“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”— Rumi“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”— Rumi“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”— Rumi“What you seek is seeking you.”— Rumi“The heart is a thousand-stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.”— Hafiz“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely, the astonishing light of your own being.”— Hafiz“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”— Rumi“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”— Rumi

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arabicTarjuman al-Ashwaq (The Interpreter of Desires), Poem XI

“My heart has become capable of every form: it is a pasture for gazelles and a monastery for Christian monks, and a temple for idols, and the pilgrim's Ka'ba, and the tables of the Torah and the book of the Quran. I follow the religion of Love: whatever way Love's camels take, that is my religion and my faith.”

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Rumi spoke of love as the fundamental force of existence. In his Diwan-i Shams-i Tabrizi, he wrote:

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

For Rumi, love (عشق) was not merely an emotion but a transformative fire that burns away the ego, leaving only divine presence. He saw love as the purpose of all spiritual practice.

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