Your heart is the size of an ocean.
Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
Rumi ❤
Rumi ❤
Your radiance shines
in every atom
of creation
yet our petty desires
keep it hidden.
❤ ❤ Rumi
Whatever you keep hidden in your heart,
God manifests in you outwardly.
Whatever the root of the tree feeds on in secret,
affects the bough and the leaf.
❤ Rumi
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