My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I learn tonig...
There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, "Why on our hearts, and not in them?" The rabbi answered, "Only God can put Scripture insi...
Hey Rumi, you said: What you seek is seeking you. I submit. For I believe that the seeker knows what it seeks. It will not find what it does not seek even if she is found. For I believe, the heart does not follow the path it does not seek. The heart ...
I am afraid of those who are too simple on the outside; for their vanities they wear upon their hearts. Better to meet a person who wears their vanities out in the open where you can see them! Than one who hides them in their hearts! For it is the st...
In the third place he comes on to the chiefe Organ, that is, the instrument wherewith they should sing. It is not with the Organs of the Papists, no not with thy tongue; but it is with the heart, and with the affection of a well-ruled heart. Therefor...
The bitter heart eats its owner.
Easy to know men's faces, not their hearts.
When the heart is at ease, the body is healthy.
Cultivate a heart of love that knows no danger.
What the eye sees not, the heart craves not.
When the stomach is full the heart is glad.
If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
Only the knife knows the heart of a pineapple.
God is closest to those with broken hearts.
What the heart thinks, the mouth speaks.
Far from the eye, far from the heart.
Mouth from honey, heart of gall.
What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks.
Were it not for hope the heart would break.
It's OK not to be OK.
Mind is judgmental but heart is not so love with heart, not with mind.
