Rumi Quotes

The dividing line forms-fashioned from: Dragon's tears Missed years Overcome fears The fire and ice paradox Seen with True Sight Darkness does not always equate to evil Light does not always bring good

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

The rain begins with a single drop.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist must fight, the fighter must find peace. If you flow as a river, burn as a fire. If you burn as a furnace, flow as a river. If you fly as a bird, sit firm as a rock. If you sit firmly, then fly as a bird. Be a fire that flows. A rock that flies. Love with fear and fear with love. For we are not fire, not water, not air, not rocks, not thoughts, not deeds, not fear, not love. We are G-dly beings.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

A light here required a shadow there.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame.

To deny the darkness of the soul is to be but half a human being. But we had both sides.

Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt

Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

Extremes are for us as if they were not, and as if we were not in regard to them; they escape from us, or we from them.

No one is so good that he has no bad in him, & no one is so bad that he has no good in him

There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.