your mirror will be polished

Sultanahmet Camii, Blue Mosque, İstanbul-Türkiye, pentax k10d, photos by ozgur ozkok

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Mevlana Rumi

to seek for love

Hagia Sophia Museum and Sultanahmet Square, Ayasofya Müzesi ve Sultanahmet Meydanı, İstanbul-Türkiye, pentax k10d, photos by ozgur ozkok

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Mevlana Rumi

I started looking for you

Hagia Sophia and Sultanahmet Square, Ayasofya müzesi ve Sultanahmet meydanı, Istanbul-Turkiye, pentax k10d, photos by ozgur ozkok

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.
Mevlana Rumi

feel a river moving in you

Haliç, Golden Horn, İstanbul, pentax k10d, photos by ozgur ozkok

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Mevlana Rumi

Sokullu Mehmet Pasa Camii photos

some photos from my 2009 visit

Haydarpasa Railway Station photos

some photos from 2009

When you seek love with all your heart “Hz. Cabir Camii”

Hazreti Cabir Camii, Ayvansaray-Balat, İstanbul, pentax k10d, photo by ozgur ozkok

When you seek love with all your heart, you shall find it’s echoes across the universe. Mevlana Rumi

Words tear the thread “sultanahmet square”

Sultanahmet square, Sultanahmet meydanı, İstanbul, pentax k10d, photos by ozgur ozkok

There is a thread from the heart to the lips where the secret of life is woven. Words tear the thread but in silence the secrets speak. Mevlana Rumi

The friend has secret ways known to no one else

If the door shuts, do not go away. Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed. The friend has secret ways known to no one else. Mevlana Rumi

streets and faces of Galata

Galata-İstanbul, pentax k10d, photos by ozgur ozkok