Rumi Quotes

If I'm going to talk about an issue, I better know what it's about viscerally.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

One eye sees, the other feels.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

We need to be a bit kinder and more aware of what is really important.

Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.

We can only love what we know.

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.

We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river.

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

Open your eyes, soldier,” Tatiana said fondly, caressing his face.“Are you hungry?” “I was hungry,” Alexander said. “But you fed me.” His body was shaking underneath his sheet.

All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

All you have to do is be able to feel.

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

The deepest hunger of [a child's] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.

The eyes of my eyes are opened.

Let's not forget that what is looking out of your eyes and hearing with your ears right now is already Spirit. And that Spirit, that I AMness, is always present in all sentient beings.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

Not every man with a heart is understanding, nor every man with an ear a listener, and nor every man with eyes able to see.

A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

Theres a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday of my life.

You need to see things, REALLY see them, feel them, live them, so you know what’s big and what’s little, what matters and what to put aside.

A lot of you cared, just not enough.