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If my head holds one thought wise and clear, it's You.
Poor as I am, what I hold dear is You.
No matter how I see myself, I'm nothing ...
Anything I am entirely is You! -- Rumi
What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself,
by saying implicitly,
My eyes are clear."
Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing
himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well
with my eyes so inflamed. -- Rumi
I see so deeply within myself
Not needing my eyes.
I can see everything clearly!
Why would I want to bother my eyes again???
Now that I see the world ...
through His eyes. -- Rumi
Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see. -- Rumi
There is a place born of silence
A place where the whispers of the heart arise.
There is a place where voices sing your beauty
A place where every breath
carves your image
in my soul.
[465, translated by Jonathan Star, - In the Arms of the Beloved] -- Rumi
Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever. -- Rumi
Close the language-door,
and open the love-window -- Rumi
Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other. -- Rumi
To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there." -- Rumi
Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do? -- Rumi
We bury our seeds and wait,
Winter blocks the road,
Flowers are taken prisoner underground,
But then green justice tenders a spear -- Rumi
There's a field somewhere
beyond all doubt and wrong doing.
I'll meet you there. -- Rumi
This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. -- Rumi
What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions. -- Rumi
Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence.
Stay there until you see you're looking at the light
with infinite eyes. -- Rumi
I said, "I just want to know you and then disappear."
She said, "Knowing me does not mean dying. -- Rumi
Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,
no light and no land anywhere,
cloudcover thick. I try to stay
just above the surface, yet I'm already under
and living within the ocean. -- Rumi
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged -- Rumi
Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of the One.
Blessed is the poem that comes through me but not of me because the sound of my own music will drown the song of Love. -- Rumi
The branch might seem like the fruit's origin:
In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit. -- Rumi
Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry
Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake
Fortunate the heart that burns for His sake
Laughter always follow tears
Blessed are those who understand
Life blossoms wherever water flows
Where tears are shed divine mercy is shown -- Rumi
Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything. -- Rumi
Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That.
Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That. -- Rumi
I am sunlight slicing the dark. -- Rumi
Looking at my life
I see that only Love
Has been my soul's companion
From deep inside
My soul cries out:
Do not wait, surrender
For the sake of Love. -- Rumi
There's nothing left of me.
I'm like a ruby held up to the sunrise.
Is it still a stone, or a world
made of redness? It has no resistance
to sunlight. -- Rumi
A woman is a beam of the divine light
she is not the being whom sensual
desire takes as it's object
she is a creator it should be said
she is not a creature
she is infinite love
can find all this -- Rumi
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. -- Rumi
If Your Eyes Are Opened, You'll See The Things Worth Seeing. -- Rumi
I will whisper secrets in your ears,
just nod yes and be silent.
A soul moon appeared in the path of my heart.
How precious is this journey -- Rumi
Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul ... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish. -- Rumi
Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open! -- Rumi
Whoever acts with respect will get respect. -- Rumi
You are the drop,and the ocean
you are kindness,you are anger,
you are sweetness,you are poison.
Do not make me more disheartened.
you are the chamber of the sun,
you are the abode of venus,
you are the garden of all hope.
Oh, Beloved, let me enter. -- Rumi
I am weary of personal worrying,
in love with the art of madness. -- Rumi
All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness
Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you.
All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health,
Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you ... -- Rumi
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains. -- Rumi
If I gaze at my beloved
she may feel embarrassed
and if I do not,
she will feel neglected.
I can see the stars reflecting
in the calm water of her face
but if I look away
I lose my clarity. -- Rumi
Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me, do not grow,
Oh time, without me, do not go.
... Oh, you cannot go, without me. -- Rumi
You've so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don't ask how. Then you come near. "Do not ... " I say, and "Do not ... ," you answer. Don't ask why this delights me. -- Rumi
My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world. -- Rumi
Choose a master, for without him this journey is full of tribulations, fears, and dangers. With no escort, you would be lost on a road you would have already taken. Do not travel alone on the Path. -- Rumi
The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same. -- Rumi
Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. -- Rumi
You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood. -- Rumi
Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious. -- Rumi
Nearness to God is common to us all,
Because we're all created and sustained by God,
But only the authentically noble
Possess and live that nearness
That's a constant upswelling passion of love. -- Rumi
What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned ... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest ... What still pulls on your soul? -- Rumi
O my choice beauty You've gone But your love remains in my heart Your image in my eye O guide on my winding road I keep turning round and round in the hopes of Finding you -- Rumi
The satiated person and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread. -- Rumi
No more holding back.
Be reckless.
Tell your Love to everybody. -- Rumi
Although the road is never ending
take a step and keep walking,
do not look fearfully into the distance ...
On this path let the heart be your guide
for the body is hesitant and full of fear. -- Rumi
Come on sweetheart
let's adore one another
before there is no more
of you and me -- Rumi
Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean. -- Rumi
As for us, He has appointed the job of permanent unemployment.
If he wanted us to work, after all,
He would not have created this wine.
With a skinfull of this, Sir,
would you rush out to commit economics? -- Rumi
Wisdom is like the rain.
It's supply is unlimited, but it comes down according to what the occasion requires -
in winter and spring, in summer and autumn,
always in due measure, more or less,
but the source of that rain is the oceans itself, which has no limits. -- Rumi
Someone asks me, What is love?
Do not look for an explanation.
Dissolve into me, and you will know
when it calls. Respond.
Walk out as a lion, as a rose.
Inhale autumn, long for spring. -- Rumi
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. -- Rumi
What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive. -- Rumi
If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide. -- Rumi
LOVE will lay a carpet of treasures under your feet. -- Rumi
We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee. -- Rumi
Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out. -- Rumi
Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right ...
That flawed utterance is dearer to God! -- Rumi
Bear the pain of longing silently, my heart
for this is the cure.
The ultimate sacrifice is to curb your desires
and surrender the ego. -- Rumi
Every soul becomes gold
when touched by the Beloved. -- Rumi
Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work. -- Rumi
The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter. -- Rumi
The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me. -- Rumi
Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets
The moon sets
But they are not gone. -- Rumi
Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul. -- Rumi
Those who are pure in heart achieve God-consciousness; they are truly and actually aware of God at the center of their being (their heart). These sanctified individuals are said to be Possessors of the Heart. -- Rumi
Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise. -- Rumi
Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away. -- Rumi
Desire
I desire you
more than food
and drink
My body
my senses
my mind
hunger for your taste
I can sense your presence
in my heart
although you belong
to all the world
I wait
with silent passion
for one gesture
one glance
from you -- Rumi
Except for Love, nothing you see will remain forever. -- Rumi
Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that -- Rumi
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart -- Rumi
Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. -- Rumi
At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:
We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?
We have gone to Heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,
And now we will go back there, for there is our country. -- Rumi
The Inspiration You Seek
Is Already Within You.
Be Silent And Listen. -- Rumi
Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself. -- Rumi
There is a Soul within the Soul. Seek it out. There is a Treasure in your mountain. Seek it Out. A mystic in motion, if that's what you are, don't seek out there; seek inside. -- Rumi
Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love
Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it. -- Rumi
You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it. -- Rumi
Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one. -- Rumi
Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. -- Rumi
This world is full of remedies. But you have no remedy until God opens a window for you. You may not be aware of that remedy just now. In the hour of need it will be made clear to you. The Prophet said God made a remedy for every pain. -- Rumi
I've been looking for a long, long time,
for this thing called love,
I've ridden comets across the sky,
and I've looked below and above.
Then one day I looked inside myself,
and this is what I found,
A golden sun residing there,
beaming forth God's light and sound. -- Rumi
There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in Love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds. This was ordained in creation. Only from the heart can you reach the sky: The Rose of Glory can grow only from the heart. -- Rumi
You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this world of dust and matter.
Out of this dust
you have created a personal image,
and have forgotten
about the essence of your true origin -- Rumi
I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars. -- Rumi
A fish wants to dive from dry land
into the ocean
when it hears the roaring waves.
A falcon wants to return from the forest
to the King's wrist
when it hears the drum beating "Return."
A Sufi, shimmering with light,
wants to dance like a sunbeam
when darkness surrounds him. -- Rumi
Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing. -- Rumi
You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one. -- Rumi
If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear. -- Rumi
Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love. -- Rumi
Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being. -- Rumi
The body itself is to reveal the light that's blazing inside your Presence. -- Rumi
Disharmony prevails when you confuse
Lust with LOVE, while the distance
between the two is endless! -- Rumi
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations ... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers. -- Rumi
Here is a relationship booster
that is guaranteed to
work:
Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid
make your eyes light up as if you
just heard something
brilliant. -- Rumi
The woman
has great power. Se can tie knots in your chest that only God's breathing loosens. Don't
take her appeal lightly. -- Rumi
You have forgotten the One
who doesn't care about ownership,
who doesn't try to turn a profit
from every human exchange. -- Rumi
Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought. -- Rumi
You transform all those who are touched by You. -- Rumi
I will be waiting here ... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake! -- Rumi
Bring the pure wine of
love and freedom.
But sir, a tornado is coming.
More wine, we'll teach this storm
A thing or two about whirling. -- Rumi
In truth everything and everyone Is a shadow of the Beloved,
And our seeking is His seeking
And our words are His words ...
We search for Him here and there, while looking right at Him.
Sitting by His side, we ask:
'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?' -- Rumi
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves. -- Rumi
Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way. -- Rumi
Do not look back,
No one knows how the world ever began.
Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever.
If you dwell on the past or future,
You will miss the moment. -- Rumi
Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold. -- Rumi
Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home.
While you look for trinkets
The treasure house awaits you in your own being. -- Rumi
We watch a sunlight dust dance,
and we try to be that lively,
but nobody knows what music those particles hear.
Each of us has a secret companion musician to dance to.
Unique rhythmic play, a motion in the street we alone know and hear. -- Rumi
This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love. -- Rumi
Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits. -- Rumi
If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face, maybe you wouldn't slumber so deeply in that house of clay. Why not move into your house of joy and shine into every crevice! For you are the secret Treasure-bearer, and always have been. Didn't you know? -- Rumi
And if every way is closed before you. The secret one will show a secret path no other eyes have seen. -- Rumi
The wave of Atlast came along and caulked the body's ship; when the ship is wrecked once more, the turn of union and encounter will come. -- Rumi
We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty. -- Rumi
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. -- Rumi
Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water. -- Rumi
I walk into a huge pasture. I nurse the milk of millennia. -- Rumi
Thirst drove me down to the water
where I drank the moon's reflection. -- Rumi
Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon. -- Rumi
When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon. -- Rumi
There's a path from me to you
I'm constantly looking for,
so I try to keep clear and still
as water does with the moon. -- Rumi
Lamps are different, but light is the same. -- Rumi
I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. -- Rumi
To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child. -- Rumi
Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving. -- Rumi
A new moon teaches gradualness
and deliberation and how one gives birth
to oneself slowly. Patience with small details
makes perfect a large work, like the universe. -- Rumi
The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross. -- Rumi
You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion -- Rumi
Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. -- Rumi
Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now. -- Rumi
This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it. -- Rumi
Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure. -- Rumi
If you only say one prayer in a day make it Thank You. -- Rumi
Be quiet now and wait.
It may be that the ocean one,
the one we desire so to move into and become,
desires us out here on land a little longer,
going our sundry roads to the shore. -- Rumi
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again. -- Rumi
There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there. -- Rumi
If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
Only your presence revives my withered heart.
You are the candle that lights the whole world
and I am an empty vessel for your light. -- Rumi
Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend. -- Rumi
Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing! -- Rumi
Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it. -- Rumi
Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love -- Rumi
God looks not at your form, nor at your deeds, but at your Heart. -- Rumi
You are the Essence of the Essence,
The intoxication of Love.
I long to sing Your Praises
but stand mute
with the agony of wishing in my heart ! -- Rumi
Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens. -- Rumi
God (in His mercy) accepts false coin. -- Rumi
Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity.
Go beyond your tangled thoughts and
find the splendor of paradise. -- Rumi
All the world Loves You,
but You are nowhere to be found,
Hidden and yet ... completely obvious! -- Rumi
If I hold you in my heart, you'll wither;
Become a thorn if I hold you in my eyes.
No, I'll make a place for you within my soul instead
So you'll be my love in lives beyond this life. -- Rumi
This is a gathering of Lovers.
In this gathering
there is no high, no low,
no smart, no ignorant,
no special assembly,
no grand discourse,
no proper schooling required.
There is no master,
no disciple. -- Rumi
Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key. -- Rumi
Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships. -- Rumi
You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave this world of ignorance -- Rumi
I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer. -- Rumi
I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference -- Rumi
I profess the religion of love,
Love is my religion and my faith.
My mother is love
My father is love
My prophet is love
My God is love
I am a child of love
I have come only to speak of love. -- Rumi
What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence. -- Rumi
Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale. -- Rumi
Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,
Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition. -- Rumi
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest? -- Rumi
With passion pray.
With passion make love.
With passion eat and drink and dance and play.
Why look like a dead fish
in this ocean of God? -- Rumi
What sort of person says that he or she wants to be polished and pure, then complains about being handled roughly? -- Rumi
I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams
to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility.
where suffering and pain do not exist,
where we give praises for our joy and happiness,
where our Love interwines with Love for all things. -- Rumi
You are more valuable than both heaven and earth.
What else can I say?
You don't know your own worth. -- Rumi
Look what they've done to me;
I am disheveled, bewildered, confused.
Now please take my hand.
I am wandering about,
in awe and amazement of you.
Take my hand.
Everyone
has someone to take care for them.
But look at me: I have no one.
Take my hand -- Rumi
If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy. -- Rumi
No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here. -- Rumi
Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full. -- Rumi
Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence,
you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is.
Where they come from never goes dry.
It is an always flowing spring. -- Rumi
If you show patience
If you show patience, I'll rid you of this virtue.
If you fall asleep, I'll rub the sleep from your eyes.
If you become a mountain, I'll melt you in fire.
And if you become an ocean, I'll drink all your water. -- Rumi
The glowing jewel says,
"Don't be fooled by my beauty -
the light of my face comes from
the candle of my spirit.
Every jewel says to you, "Be not satisfied with my beauty, for the light in my face derives from the candle of my awareness! -- Rumi
Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything. -- Rumi
To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes. -- Rumi
Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support. -- Rumi
Argue not concerning God, ... re-examine all you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul ... . I -- Rumi
Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them. -- Rumi
Heart is sea,
language is shore.
Whatever sea includes,
will hit the shore. -- Rumi
The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder. -- Rumi
And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here. -- Rumi
We talk about this and that. There's no rest except on these branching moments. -- Rumi
Wake up:
This world that you dream holds nothing to fear. -- Rumi
I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star. -- Rumi
One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand. -- Rumi
The Heart is your Student,
For love is the only way we learn. -- Rumi
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God. -- Rumi
If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself. -- Rumi
Don't wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you. -- Rumi
There is a sun within every person. -- Rumi
I seem restless,
but am deeply at ease.
Branches tremble;
the roots are still. -- Rumi
The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control. -- Rumi
Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game. -- Rumi
Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad. -- Rumi
The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please. -- Rumi
When you are everywhere, you are nowhere
When you are somewhere, you are everywhere. -- Rumi
Someone was saying yesterday, This world
began in time, but eternity will inherit it. -- Rumi
The flower that does not smile
at the branches withers. -- Rumi
My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit. -- Rumi
There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings. -- Rumi
For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain. -- Rumi
Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion? -- Rumi
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. -- Rumi
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings. -- Rumi
I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world. -- Rumi
Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence. -- Rumi
Whoever has Heart's doors wide open,
could see the Sun itself in every atom. -- Rumi
Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open? -- Rumi
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. -- Rumi
Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life. -- Rumi
My friend, you thought you lost Him;
that all your life you've been separated from Him.
Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him,
and haven't searched within your own house. -- Rumi
When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole. -- Rumi
Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. -- Rumi
A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself.
That's how I hold your voice.
I am scrap wood thrown in your fire,
and quickly reduced to smoke. -- Rumi
Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure. -- Rumi
I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence -- Rumi
If the wind had taken me to you,
I would have held tight to the skirts of the wind.
I miss you so much that I would fly to you faster than a bird;
But how can a bird with a clipped wing fly -- Rumi
Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows. -- Rumi
I love my friends
neither with my heart nor with my mind.
Just in case ...
Heart might stop.
Mind can forget.
I love them with my soul.
Soul never stops or forgets. -- Rumi
I love you neither with my heart
nor with my mind.
My heart might stop
my mind can forget.
I love you with
my soul because
my soul never stops
or forgets.
-Rumi -- Rumi
Hear this if you can:
If you want to reach him
You have to go beyond yourself
And when you finally arrive at the land of absence
Be silent
Don't say a thing
Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there -- Rumi
Though the words of the great saints appear in a hundred different forms, since God is one and the Way is one, how can their words be different? Though their teachings appear to contradict, their meaning is one. Separation exists in their outward form only; in inner purpose they all agree. -- Rumi
On my heart in beautiful calligraphy You've written words that only You and I can know. Their secret You promised to reveal one day but now I see You were only teasing. -- Rumi
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you ... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. -- Rumi
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust. -- Rumi
There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself. -- Rumi
Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death. -- Rumi
What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality. -- Rumi
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues. -- Rumi
My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way. -- Rumi
If you don't find true balance, anyone can deceive you. -- Rumi
Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your Heart from the darkness of hate -- Rumi
My souls sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this? -- Rumi
If you put your soul against the oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside of your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives within us. -- Rumi
If I Separated Myself
From You ... I Would Turn
Entirely Thorn! -- Rumi
Go my friend
bestow your love
even on your enemies
if you touch their hearts
what do you think will happen. -- Rumi
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. -- Rumi
When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men. -- Rumi
What is planted in each person's soul will sprout. -- Rumi
Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness. -- Rumi
There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play. -- Rumi
There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection. -- Rumi
Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate? -- Rumi
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry? -- Rumi
From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean. -- Rumi
A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden. -- Rumi
If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill. -- Rumi
Flowers every night Blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite, At peace am I. -- Rumi
Do not feel lonely,
the entire universe is inside you.
Stop acting so small.
You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Set your life on fire.
Seek those who fan your flames. -- Rumi
I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there. -- Rumi
Die! Die! Die in this love!
If you die in this love,Your soul will be renewed.
Die! Die! Don't fear the death of that which is known
If you die to the temporal, You will become timeless. -- Rumi
When you see the setting, wait for the rising. Why worry about a sunset or a fading moon? -- Rumi
Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need. -- Rumi
Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor
Why talk of anything else? -- Rumi
Because of your love I have broken with my past -- Rumi
Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you.
Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon. -- Rumi
Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover. -- Rumi
Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise. -- Rumi
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one who becomes a servant of lovers
is really a fortunate sovereign.
Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love.
Love is a cloud that scatters pearls. -- Rumi
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love. -- Rumi
You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever. -- Rumi
Friend, we're traveling together.
Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you
one tiny spot of the beauty that cannot be spoken.
I'm like an ant that's gotten into the granary, ludicrously happy, and trying to lug out
a grain that's way too big. -- Rumi
Lose your soul in God's Love ...
I swear there is no other way ! -- Rumi
Believe in love's infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love is life -- Rumi
Yesterday is gone and took away its tale.
Today we must live a fresh story again. -- Rumi
To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul. -- Rumi
Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green daylight. There are ways of being born twice,of coming to where you fly,not individually like birds, but as the sun moves with his bride,sincerity. -- Rumi
Be clear and smiling for those who are glad to see you.
Someone who is not, let his way darken like a pen leaving a faltering ink trail. -- Rumi
Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand? -- Rumi
Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love,
if you are too careful, LOVE will not find you. -- Rumi
The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke won't find the Secret. -- Rumi
The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful. -- Rumi
Love cannot be described. It must be tasted. -- Rumi
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again. -- Rumi
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun. -- Rumi
Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state. -- Rumi
Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently, he whispered,
"Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
It is wrapped in silence." -- Rumi
Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord. -- Rumi
If the beloved is everywhere,
the lover is a veil,
but when living itself becomes
the Friend, lovers disappear. -- Rumi
Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues. -- Rumi
You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck. -- Rumi
This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden. -- Rumi
When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this? -- Rumi
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. -- Rumi
There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.
The hopers would feel slighted if they knew. -- Rumi
The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world ... -- Rumi
In the bazaar of herbs and potions Don't wander aimlessly, Find the shop with a potion That is sweet. -- Rumi
The source of now is here. -- Rumi
I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it. -- Rumi
Hear from the heart wordless mysteries. -- Rumi
You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open. -- Rumi
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside. -- Rumi
In this life many demolitions are actually renovations. -- Rumi
A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another -- Rumi
Reality is blocked by form and image. -- Rumi
There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts. -- Rumi
God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.
Each note is a need coming through one of us,
a passion, a longing pain.
Remember the lips
where the wind-breath originated,
and let your note be clear.
Don't try to end it.
Be your note. -- Rumi
We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect. -- Rumi
Martyred plants from their shrouds. Their mouths -- Rumi
There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling. -- Rumi
From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it
Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for -- Rumi
Come to the orchard in Spring.
There is light and wine, and sweethearts
in the pomegranate flowers.
If you do not come, these do not matter.
If you do come, these do not matter. -- Rumi
This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say. -- Rumi
Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;
For I am like the Moon,
you will see me with new face everyday. -- Rumi
Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I. -- Rumi
You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold. -- Rumi
Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset -- Rumi
I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; / But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world. -- Rumi
Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses. -- Rumi
They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual? They wonder about Solomon and all his wives. In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul and you are that. But we have ways within each other that will never be said by anyone. -- Rumi
I learned that every mortal will taste death, But only some will taste life. -- Rumi
Love calls - everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming? -- Rumi
But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue. -- Rumi
The Ego is a veil between humans and God'."
"In prayer all are equal. -- Rumi
There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere? -- Rumi
Lo, I am with you always means when you look for God, God is in the look of your eyes, in the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self, or things that have happened to you. There's no need to go outside. -- Rumi
Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors. -- Rumi
There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music ... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should ... -- Rumi
Every love outside of HIS love, is pain. -- Rumi
I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns. -- Rumi
When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine. -- Rumi
Love is the instrument to unfold divine secrets ...
Love is the reign timeless, dimensionless ...
Lover is as distinct as the moon shining among stars on the sky.
Beloved is the sparkle in the heart of the Love. -- Rumi
It is Love and the Lover that live eternally -
Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed. -- Rumi
Wake up Lovers, It is time to start the Journey! Let us kiss the ground & flow like a river towards the Ocean. Only love can lead the way. -- Rumi
If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over. -- Rumi
You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love -- Rumi
In this earth,
in this immaculate field,
we shall not plant any seeds
except for compassion,
except for love. -- Rumi
In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there? -- Rumi
There is another language beyond language,
another place beyond heaven and hell.
Precious gems come from another mine,
the heart draws light from another source. -- Rumi
What else can I say?
You will only hear
what you are ready to hear.
Don't nod your head,
Don't try to fool me
the truth of what you see
is written all over your face! -- Rumi
Only union with you gives joy.
The rest if tearing down one building to put up another. -- Rumi
Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul -- Rumi
The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle. -- Rumi
The way of love is not / a subtle argument. / The door there is devastation. / Birds make great sky-circles / of their freedom. / How do they learn it? / They fall, and falling, / they're given wings. -- Rumi
Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings. -- Rumi
My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life. -- Rumi
Be silent now. Say fewer and fewer praise poems. Let yourself become living poetry. -- Rumi
There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light. -- Rumi
The Law of Wonder rules my life at last,
... I burn each second of my life to Love
Each second of my life burns out in Love
In each leaping second Love lives afresh. -- Rumi
One day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on my cheek the poem that hasn't been thought of. -- Rumi
From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet. -- Rumi
When love itself comes to kiss you, don't hold back! -- Rumi
I am a bird of God's garden
and I do not belong to this dusty world
For a day or two they have put me here
in this cage of my own body
I did not come here of my own
I will not return of my own
to my own country. -- Rumi
Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God. -- Rumi
Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him. -- Rumi
Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power. -- Rumi
They are the chosen ones
who have surrendered ...
Once they were particles of light
now they are the radiant sun! -- Rumi
I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel.
Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away.
A Light came and kindled a Flame in the depth of my Soul.
A Light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly. -- Rumi
The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love. -- Rumi
I thought, "First I will know you,
then I will die."
He replied,
"Whoever knows Me never dies. -- Rumi
Listen to presences inside poems,
Let them take you where they will.
Follow those private hints,
and never leave the premises. -- Rumi
Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear? All day and night, music, a quiet, bright reedsong. If it fades, we fade. -- Rumi
The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before. -- Rumi
He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live. -- Rumi
Living lacks joy without you
dying lacks joy without you
How can I clear my mind of care for you?
I cannot manage without you.
Whatever I say, my source,
reveals my strengths and faults
So please, be gracious!
and repeat with me:
I cannot manage without you. -- Rumi
The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. -- Rumi
Every step I take is a blessing. -- Rumi
We have been secretly fed
from beyond space and time. That's why we look for something more than this. -- Rumi
Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top. -- Rumi
I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as a plant and rose to animal,
I died as an animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? -- Rumi
To live without you
is to be robbed of love
and what is life without it?
To live without you
is death to me, my love
but some call it life. -- Rumi
When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured. -- Rumi
Even when you tear its petals off one after another,
the rose keeps laughing and doesn't bend in pain.
"Why should I be afflicted because of a thorn?
It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh."
Whatever you lost through fate,
be certain that it saved you from pain. -- Rumi
Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe -- Rumi
Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER. -- Rumi
The Prophets accept all agony and trust it
For the water has never feared the fire. -- Rumi
We often need to be refreshed. -- Rumi
Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull
into a cup for others to drink wine from.
In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man,
who doesn't know what he's about to do! -- Rumi
A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain. -- Rumi
Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love. -- Rumi
The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being strong. The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are. It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves. It leaves the leaves alone. -- Rumi
When you seek Love
with all your Heart,
you shall find its echoes in the universe. -- Rumi
I love this world, even as I hear the great wind of leaving it rising, for there is a grainy taste I prefer to every idea of heaven: human friendship. -- Rumi
I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?
Look at your eyes. They are small,
but they see enormous things. -- Rumi
You have been walking the water's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, deeper, under a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. -- Rumi
You suppose you are the trouble
But you are the cure
You suppose that you are the lock on the door
But you are the key that opens it
It's too bad that you want to be someone else
You don't see your own face, your own beauty
Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours. -- Rumi
You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Why do you worry? -- Rumi
Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul. -- Rumi
Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart. -- Rumi
I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing? -- Rumi
Don't seek the water; get thirst. -- Rumi
Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key ... -- Rumi
There is giving, and there is knowingness. Some have generosity and compassion but no true knowledge. Some have knowledge but no self-sacrifice. When both are present, that person is blessed and prosperous. Such a being is truly incomparable. -- Rumi
Leave that which is not,
but appears to be. Seek that which is,
but is not apparent. -- Rumi
I come to YOU without ME, come to ME without YOU. -- Rumi
Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants. -- Rumi
If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart. -- Rumi
If you yearn for holy felicity,
shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts. -- Rumi
People want you to be happy.
Don't keep serving them your pain!
If you could untie your wings
and free your soul of jealousy,
you and everyone around you
would fly up like doves. -- Rumi
Since Love has made ruins of my heart
The sun must come and illumine them.
Such generosity has broken me with shame. -- Rumi
The real beloved is your beginning and your end.
When you find that one,
you'll no longer expect anything else -- Rumi
Prayer clears the mist
and brings back peace to the Soul ... -- Rumi
Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace. -- Rumi
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity. -- Rumi
Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness. -- Rumi
Lovers drink wine all day and night and tear the veils of the mind.
When drunk with love's wine, body, heart and soul become one. -- Rumi
Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth. -- Rumi
What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool. -- Rumi
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. -- Rumi
Live in the opening where
there is no door to hide behind. -- Rumi
You cannot learn about Love, LOVE appears on the wings of grace. -- Rumi
There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God. -- Rumi
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. -- Rumi
Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here. -- Rumi
Come, come, whoever you are,
wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving,
it doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times.
Come, come again, come. -- Rumi
Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water. -- Rumi
When love is not accepted move on;
when love is not appreciated walk away;
hopefully time will teach what real, true love is. -- Rumi
The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one. -- Rumi
Live in the nowhere that you come from
even though you have got an address Here. -- Rumi
Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care! -- Rumi
Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds. -- Rumi
Don't ask me about prayer rocks
Anyplace I put my head is a prayer rock.
Don't talk of direction
All six directions face Him.
Gardens, flames, nightingale,
whirling dance, and brotherhood
Throw all these away
and throw yourself into His love. -- Rumi
I am the call of love ...
Can you hear me in the full grasses, in the scented winds ?
It is I who makes the garden smile. -- Rumi
I am merely a guest born in this world, to know the secrets that lie beyond it. -- Rumi
There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. -- Rumi
You hurt and have sharp desire,
yet your presence is a healing calm. -- Rumi
I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still! -- Rumi
There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body. -- Rumi
Excuse my wandering.
How can one be orderly with this?
It's like counting leaves in a garden,
along with the song-notes of partridges,
and crows.
Sometimes organization
and computation become absurd. -- Rumi
With love you don't bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face. -- Rumi
Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face. -- Rumi
Look as long as you can at the friend you love,
no matter whether that friend is moving away from you
or coming back toward you. -- Rumi
My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ;
'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved.
I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one;
One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call. -- Rumi
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. -- Rumi
Come, come, whoever you are, come.
Infidel, idolator, Wanderer, fire-worshipper, it doesn't matter, come.
Ours is not a convent of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times,
Come, come again. -- Rumi
We are all the same ... all the same ...
longing to find our way back ...
back to the One ... back to the Only One! -- Rumi
Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free. -- Rumi
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. -- Rumi
A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music. -- Rumi
Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul. -- Rumi
He has afflicted you from every direction in order to pull you back to the directionless ... -- Rumi
Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets. -- Rumi
I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy. -- Rumi
You cannot hide love
Love will get on its way
To the heart of someone you love
Far or near, it goes home
To where it belongs
To the heart of lovers -- Rumi
Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic -- Rumi
God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion ! -- Rumi
Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know. -- Rumi
Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door.
She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side.
Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair
My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands. -- Rumi
Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty. -- Rumi
There's no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself. -- Rumi
Shams is a trumpet note of light
that starts the atoms spinning,
a wind that comes at dawn
tasting of bread and salt.
Move to the edge and over. Fly with the wings
he gives, and if you get tired, lie down,
but keep opening inside your soul. -- Rumi
The more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is incomplete unless one includes the central theme of love. -- Rumi
Your soul is so close to mine
That what you dream, I know. ...
I know everything you think of: your heart is so close to mine! -- Rumi
Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come! -- Rumi
That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights. -- Rumi
Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows. -- Rumi
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. -- Rumi
A little while alone in your room
will prove more valuable than anything else
that could ever be given you. -- Rumi
The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone. -- Rumi
Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love. -- Rumi
Walk to the well.
Turn as the earth and the moon turn,
circling what they love.
Whatever circles comes from the center. -- Rumi
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. -- Rumi
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home. -- Rumi
Since I was cut from the reedbed I have made this crying sound. Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back. -- Rumi
When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles. -- Rumi
It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety. -- Rumi
Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven.
It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety. -- Rumi
I found the Divine within my Heart. -- Rumi
My religion is to be alive from LOVE. -- Rumi
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. -- Rumi
The wailing of broken hearts
is the doorway to God. -- Rumi
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,
cut holes in it, and called it a human being.
Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony
of parting, never mentioning the skill
that gave it life as a flute -- Rumi
Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see. -- Rumi
I could spend a lifetime
delighting in the image of the Friend
But once my heart beholds the Friend
then the pain becomes more precious
than a thousand delights. -- Rumi
Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens? -- Rumi
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. -- Rumi
Your heart mirrors not His love,
Rusty with your sins it is,
Remove this rust and you shall
Perceive how Glorious He is. -- Rumi
The soul has been given it's own ears to hear things the mind does not understand. -- Rumi
Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes. -- Rumi
You are an ocean in a drop of dew,
all the universes in a thin sack of blood.
What are these pleasures then,
these joys, these worlds
that you keep reaching for,
hoping they will make you more alive? -- Rumi
In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says your beauty lights up everything around you. -- Rumi
Be drunk with LOVE, for Love is all that exists. -- Rumi
Those who practice Love have neither Religion or Status. -- Rumi
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine. -- Rumi
The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom. -- Rumi
What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life. -- Rumi
Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love. Do it. -- Rumi
When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them. -- Rumi
Embrace the light and let it guide you Beyond the winds of desire. -- Rumi
Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core. -- Rumi
The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve. -- Rumi
When God
wishes to help,
he lets us weep.
Wherever water flows,
life flourishes,
wherever tears fall
divine mercy is shown. -- Rumi
I lamented in every gathering;
I associated with those in bad or happy circumstances.
(But) everyone became my friend from his (own) opinion;
he did not seek my secrets from within me.
My secret is not far from my lament,
but eyes and ears do not have the light (to sense it. -- Rumi
Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond. -- Rumi
Lovers don't meet in the end, they are in each other forever. -- Rumi
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. -- Rumi
It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you -- Rumi
GO WITH MUDDY FEET
When you hear dirty story
wash your ears.
When you see ugly stuff
wash your eyes.
When you get bad thoughts
wash your mind.
and
Keep your feet muddy. -- Rumi
Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening. -- Rumi
Look at me as many times as you wish,
but you won't get to know me!
Since you have last seen me,
I've changed a hundred times! -- Rumi
I open and fill with
LOVE and what is not
LOVE ... evaporates! -- Rumi
How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean. -- Rumi
Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends. -- Rumi
For beloved cross every pass
Worldly affairs slow their pace
A flowing brook amidst the grass
Flowing tears his face shall trace
His ego is shattered glass Self-estranged, himself deface
Sense the Divine in spirit and mass
If he is truly seeking grace -- Rumi
Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead. -- Rumi
My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know. -- Rumi
Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow? -- Rumi
There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion. -- Rumi
You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self. -- Rumi
A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison. -- Rumi
Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes. -- Rumi
Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but you let fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved, take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything that takes me from you. -- Rumi
To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness. -- Rumi
Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words. -- Rumi
All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you. -- Rumi
I said to the night, "If you are in love with the moon, it is because you never stay for long." The night turned to me and said, "It is not my fault. I never see the Sun, how can I know that love is endless? -- Rumi
As long as an angel is not annihilated, it is a devil. -- Rumi
I made an oath to myself:
as long as I live
as long as my soul remains in this body
I won't deviate from the right way
but later I looked to my left and then to my right
and I saw our beloved everywhere
how could I make a wrong turn? -- Rumi
Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed. -- Rumi
Because I cannot sleep i make music in the night -- Rumi
The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire.
Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,
but its smoke becomes visible in the end. -- Rumi
Sell Not Yourself At Little Price, Being So Precious In
God's Eyes. -- Rumi
Love's nationality is separate from all other religions, The lover's religion and nationality is the Beloved (God). The lover's cause is separate from all other causes Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries. -- Rumi
All winter you carved water jars out of ice.
How well will they hold the summer snowmelt? -- Rumi
Within tears, find hidden laughter
Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. -- Rumi
Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it.
For God has placed a pearl in sorrow's hand. -- Rumi
In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring. -- Rumi
Live at the empty heart of paradox.
I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek. -- Rumi
Give yourself a kiss. If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself. -- Rumi
I have no fear
to burn my mouth and throat
I'm ready to drink every flame and more. -- Rumi
Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it. -- Rumi
Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting. -- Rumi
There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence. -- Rumi
I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that. -- Rumi
In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love. -- Rumi
When our guides and those who are cherished by us leave and disappear, they are not annihilated, they are like stars that vanish into the light of the sun of reality. -- Rumi
Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?
Why would you refuse to give
this joy to anyone?
Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups!
They swim the huge fluid freedom. -- Rumi
Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose. -- Rumi
What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved? -- Rumi
Be silent, Only the Hand of God Can remove The burdens of your heart. -- Rumi
The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God. -- Rumi
The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming. -- Rumi
I'm dominated by Love, By my passion of love for Love -- Rumi
The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us. -- Rumi
Be relentless in your looking, because you are the one you seek. -- Rumi
Your way begins at the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now. -- Rumi
Love is the way messengers
from the mystery tell us things -- Rumi
Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart. -- Rumi
No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God. -- Rumi
Don't knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, "How are you?" and no one says How aren't you? -- Rumi
Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want. -- Rumi
Flowers open every night
across the sky, a breathing peace,
and sudden flame catching. -- Rumi
Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude. -- Rumi
Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings ... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full. -- Rumi
I am smiling at myself today There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left Free from all desire I sit quietly like Earth My silent cry echoes like thunder Throughout the universe I am not worried about it I know it will be heard by no one Except me. -- Rumi
How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth! -- Rumi
Be with those who help your being. -- Rumi
I came to this earth so that I could find my way back to my Beloved. -- Rumi
You sit here for days saying, This is strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. You're some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won't have to become coins. -- Rumi
Friend, our closeness is this : Anywhere
you put your foot, feel me in the firmness
under you.
How is it with this love,
I see your world, but not you? -- Rumi
Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself ... ! -- Rumi
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love. -- Rumi
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him. -- Rumi
My dear soul, flee from the worthless,
stay close only to those with a pure heart.
Like attracts like.
A crow will lead you to the graveyard,
a parrot to a lump of sugar. -- Rumi
Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship. -- Rumi
Oh god
Let all lovers be content
Give them happy endings
Let their lives be celebrations
Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love -- Rumi
And watch two men washing clothes,
one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony.
Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work. -- Rumi
You are a volume in the divine book
A mirror to the power that created the universe
Whatever you want, ask it of yourself
Whatever you're looking for can only be found
Inside of you -- Rumi
Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul. -- Rumi
Was dead
i came alive
i was tears
i became laughter
all because of love
when it arrived
my temporal life
from then on
changed to eternal -- Rumi
In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat. -- Rumi
In love's country, language doesn't have its place. Love is mute. -- Rumi
When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert! -- Rumi
My lips got lost on the way to the kiss -
that's how drunk I
was. -- Rumi
This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth. -- Rumi
There is a way of loving not attached to what is loved.
Observe how water is with the ground,
always moving toward the ocean,
though the ground tries to hold water's foot
and not let it go. -- Rumi
When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you're expansive, no matter what the weather, you're in an open, windy field with friends. -- Rumi
There is a window from one heart to another heart. -- Rumi
Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next. -- Rumi
Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever. -- Rumi
When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home -- Rumi
The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance. -- Rumi
What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
of your love, that somehow contains
the entire universe. -- Rumi
I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft. -- Rumi
When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it. -- Rumi
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. -- Rumi
This is how the world speaks to us. It delights in spring blossoms, even as they fall. -- Rumi
You believe God is not there, but He is, Hidden in the secret of the divine mystery -- Rumi
Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives. -- Rumi
Let your Teacher be Love itself. -- Rumi
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. -- Rumi
The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow? -- Rumi
God has allowed some magical reversal to occur,
so that you see the scorpion pit
as an object of desire,
and all the beautiful expanse around it
as dangerous and swarming with snakes. -- Rumi
I should be suspicious of what I want. -- Rumi
The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing. -- Rumi
Though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are. -- Rumi
In the sea of love, I melt like salt, Faith, Doubt - they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart, The worlds turn in it. -- Rumi
I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.' -- Rumi
Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun. -- Rumi
I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life. -- Rumi
Don't look for me in a human shape,
I am inside your looking. -- Rumi
What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature. -- Rumi
There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually
about love and the way.
Those Egyptian women, when they saw Joseph,
they were not judging his handsomeness.
They were lost in it,
cutting their hands as they cut their food. -- Rumi
New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception. -- Rumi
In fact, my soul and yours are the same, You appear in me, I in you, We hide in each other. -- Rumi
This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children. -- Rumi
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. -- Rumi
When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest! -- Rumi
I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn't find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was. -- Rumi
Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently ... Can words describe the indescribable? -- Rumi
Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines. -- Rumi
You came suddenly shook me from my sleep and vanished.
In my heart you rose like the moon
but as I glanced at you, you disappeared.
Having had a glimpse of Your garden,
I have no more the patience to endure my existence ... -- Rumi
If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire. -- Rumi
When one of us gets lost, is not here, he or she must be inside us.
There's no place like that anywhere in the world.'
Rumi -- Rumi
Muhammad says, 'Love of one's country is a part of the faith.' But don't take that literally! Your real 'country' is where you're heading, not where you are. Don't misread that hadith. -- Rumi
A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth. -- Rumi
Inside any deep asking is the answering. -- Rumi
There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye. -- Rumi
A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences. -- Rumi
If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception. -- Rumi
No one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was. -- Rumi
If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to. -- Rumi
I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. -- Rumi
Pure souls, didn't I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter. -- Rumi
Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence. -- Rumi
The universe swings again into orbit around us.
Am I looking for you or you for me?
The question is wrong.
As long as I keep using two pronouns,
I am this in-between, two-headed thing. -- Rumi
There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for. -- Rumi
One day your heart will take you to your Lover.
One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved.
Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your
pain will become your cure. -- Rumi
But these are merely words. You have caught that Light but still have not found humanity. Seek humanity: that is your true purpose. The rest is mere long-windedness. When words are elaborately decorated, their purpose is forgotten. -- Rumi
Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow. -- Rumi
Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake. -- Rumi
I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans. -- Rumi
I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey ... Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul ... Love says, You are right, but don't claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite. -- Rumi
How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump. -- Rumi
At every moment, Love's voice talks to us from left and from right. All we have to do is to know how to listen. -- Rumi
Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire. -- Rumi
Love's creed is separate from all religions. -- Rumi
No mirror ever became iron again;
No bread ever became wheat;
No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
Become the light. -- Rumi
I said, O Love, tell me this: Does the Lord know you are treating me this way? Love said to me, yes He does, just be totally ... totally ... silent -- Rumi
A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl without a shell. a mindful flooding. a spark turned to flame. bird settling nest. love lived -- Rumi
Don't run around this world
looking for a hole to hide in.
There are wild beasts in every cave!
If you live with mice,
the cat claws will find you. -- Rumi
Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. As the Prophet said, "The faithful are mirrors to one another." MATHNAWI I, 1319, 1328 -- Rumi
Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea. -- Rumi
All we really want is love's confusing joy. -- Rumi
Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love.
We are running to contemplate its vast green field.
Do you want to come with us? -- Rumi
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there. -- Rumi
Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a desert plain. For us, there is a passion in the midst of that expanse. The knower who reaches there will prostrate, there is neither Islam nor unbelief, nor any 'where' in that place. -- Rumi
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. -- Rumi
In Silence there is eloquence. -- Rumi
The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them. -- Rumi
When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind -- Rumi
Blessed is he who listens
with the ear of his heart -- Rumi
Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom. -- Rumi
No better love than love with no object -- Rumi
Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet. -- Rumi
Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light. -- Rumi
You came suddenly and stole three things from me. The patience from my heart, the colour from my face and the sleep from my eyes. -- Rumi
I have found the heart and will never leave This house of light. -- Rumi
The Water said to the dirty one, "Come here."
The dirty one said, "I am too ashamed."
The water replied, "How will your shame be washed away without me? -- Rumi
Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world. Today I am wise and try to change myself. -- Rumi
How long will you think about this painful life?
How long will you think about this harmful world?
The only thing it can take from you is your body.
Don't say all this rubbish and stop thinking. -- Rumi
Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring. -- Rumi
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. -- Rumi
Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety. -- Rumi
Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening
so your life will stay fresh. -- Rumi
We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces. -- Rumi
Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say. -- Rumi
Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life? -- Rumi
Drunks fear the police
but the police are drunk too. -- Rumi
The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes. -- Rumi
Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains ... -- Rumi
Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched. -- Rumi
At the end of my life, with just one breath left,
if you come, I'll sit up and sing. -- Rumi
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. -- Rumi
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. -- Rumi
I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool. -- Rumi
No prayer is complete without presence. -- Rumi
If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide. -- Rumi
I can't stop pointing to the beauty. -- Rumi
If you love someone, you are always joined with them
in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife. -- Rumi
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? -- Rumi
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don't go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep!
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
The door is round and open
Don't go back to sleep! -- Rumi
A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice. -- Rumi
When you notice a fault in your neighbour, search for the same in yourself. -- Rumi
If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee.
If you want the unseen world you are not living with your truth.
Both wishes are foolish, but you'll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is loves confusing joy. -- Rumi
Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential.
Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it. -- Rumi
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away. -- Rumi
Those who don't want to change, let them sleep. -- Rumi
Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive. -- Rumi
Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers. -- Rumi
When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for
one breath, in that moment you will find your true destiny.
Alas, don't spoil this precious moment.
Moments like this are very, very rare. -- Rumi
Learn to speak by listening. -- Rumi
Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence -- Rumi
Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness -- Rumi
I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you. -- Rumi
If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless. -- Rumi
Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God. -- Rumi
A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence. Talking, no matter how humble-seeming, is really a kind of bragging. Let silence be the art you practice. #54, I SEE THE FACE -- Rumi
With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love. -- Rumi
He alone has the right to break, for He alone has the power to mend. -- Rumi
Every tree, every growing thing as it grows,
says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow. -- Rumi
When The Goodwill Of Hearts Is With You,
Fountains Of Wisdom Will Begin To Flow
From Within Your Own Being. -- Rumi
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. -- Rumi
Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that's a blessing. -- Rumi
Keep silence, be mute.
If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD,
be an ear! -- Rumi
If you look too closely at the form, you'll miss the essence -- Rumi
Don't be fooled by my beauty -
the light of my face
comes from the candle of my spirit. -- Rumi
Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing. -- Rumi
Lovers have heartaches
That can't be cured by drugs
Or sleep,
Or games,
But only by seeing their beloved. -- Rumi
Sit with lovers and choose their state.
Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart. -- Rumi
Travelers, it is late.
Life's sun is going to set.
During these brief days that you have strength,
be quick and spare no effort of your wings -- Rumi
How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now. -- Rumi
Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines. -- Rumi
Carry your baggage towards silence , when you seek the signs of the way. -- Rumi
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. -- Rumi
Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one. -- Rumi
Fasting is an amazing thing. It gives people heart and soul. -- Rumi
It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him. -- Rumi
The images we create could turn into wild beasts and tear us to pieces. -- Rumi
You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern. -- Rumi
I was there in the beginning and I was the spirit of love. -- Rumi
I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved -- Rumi
Let the Beloved be a hat pulled down firmly on my head. -- Rumi
Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere. -- Rumi
Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God. -- Rumi
But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you. -- Rumi
You might get clever and say, "My doubting God's existence was willed by God." Only half true. You also chose to doubt. -- Rumi
From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape. -- Rumi
Didn't I tell you, Don't run away from me! Didn't I tell you, In this empty fantasy, Even if for centuries, you wander angrily You'll never find another true companion like me. -- Rumi
Last night you left me and slept your own deep sleep. Tonight you turn and turn. I say, 'You and I will be together till the Universe dissolves.' You mumble back things you thought of when you were drunk. -- Rumi
There is a King Who is aware of every Mask you put on -- Rumi
Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey. -- Rumi
A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle. -- Rumi
The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top. -- Rumi
The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him. -- Rumi
Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world. -- Rumi
When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening. -- Rumi
In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life.
I know that I can clear them if I wanted to in a moment.
But all this hollowness Needs my Sincerity. -- Rumi
We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones. -- Rumi
Bitter your acts, bitter am I,
Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,
Pleasant and gentle, so you are,
Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker. -- Rumi
Love asks us to enjoy our life
For nothing good can come of death.
Who is alive? I ask.
Those who are born of love.
Seek us in love itself,
Seek love in us ourselves.
Sometimes I venerate love,
Sometimes it venerates me. -- Rumi
I am in Love with Love and Love is in love with me. -- Rumi
The sun comes back every day with new and powerful secrets. -- Rumi
Your body is woven
from the light of heaven.
Are you aware
that its purity and swiftness
is the envy of angels
and its courage
keeps even devils away. -- Rumi
Roar the lion's knowledge. Write
with gold ink so whoever reads this will feel the ocean's light around them and grow
in the spirit. -- Rumi
I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls. -- Rumi
Listen to the sound of waves within you. -- Rumi
I merged so completely with love, and was so fused,
that I became Love and Love became me. -- Rumi
For without you, I swear, the town
Has become like a prison to me.
Distraction and the mountain
And the desert, all I desire. -- Rumi
Through love the devil becomes an angel.
Through love stones become soft as butter.
Through love grief is like delight.
Through love demons become the servants of God. -- Rumi
From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You. -- Rumi
The day is coming when I fly off, but who is it now in my ear who hears my voice? Who says words with my mouth? Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I cannot stop asking. -- Rumi
Listen to presences inside poems. -- Rumi
Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall to earth and grow green all over the world. -- Rumi
I am so close, I may look distant.
So completely mixed with you, I may look separate.
So out in the open, I appear hidden.
So silent, because I am constantly talking with you. -- Rumi
Who am I ?
Standing in the midst
of this thought traffic. -- Rumi
You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home. -- Rumi
If destiny comes to help you,
Love will come to meet you.
A life without love isn't a life -- Rumi
Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself -- Rumi
The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear. -- Rumi
Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst. -- Rumi
O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things. -- Rumi
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. -- Rumi
Love cannot be learned or taught. Love comes as Grace. -- Rumi
Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them -- Rumi
The world is nothing but a moment. -- Rumi
In real existence there is only unity. -- Rumi
Fasting is the first principle of medicine. -- Rumi
Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking. -- Rumi
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it,
and your face will come to shine like a sun,
and everyone who sees it will
be made glad and peaceful. -- Rumi
Your kindness cannot be said.
You open doors in the sky.
You ease the heart and make
God's qualities visible. -- Rumi
The quieter we become, the more we can hear. -- Rumi
The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind. -- Rumi
Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love's stallion knows the way exactly. With one leap, Love's horse will carry you home. -- Rumi
You call out, I am the lover,
But these are mere words.
If you see lover and Beloved as two,
you either have double vision,
or you can't count. -- Rumi
This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it. -- Rumi
Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the Light. -- Rumi
FROM MYSELF I am copper,
through You, friend, I am gold.
From myself I'm a stone, but
through You I am a gem! -- Rumi
Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold. -- Rumi
If only you knew what bliss I find in being nothing. -- Rumi
Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy. -- Rumi
We have fallen into the sugar shaker.
We are the ground beneath you.
Let someone else describe the sky.
Hold us in silence.
Do no throw us back
into some discussion. -- Rumi
Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU. -- Rumi
Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places? -- Rumi
Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining. -- Rumi
This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language. -- Rumi
There is some kiss we want with the whole of our lives. -- Rumi
Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup. -- Rumi
Don't run away from grief, o' soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby came from a stone. -- Rumi
You erased my famine, unpicked my anger
Your energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;
Now I am alive with the ore of words pouring
From my lips like molten lava glittering with joy. -- Rumi
The world is like a courtroom, with God as our judge. We are called upon to fulfill our covenant with God, who asked, "Am I not your Lord?" To which we answered, "Yea." And since here on earth we are on trial, our every word and action form the witness to and the evidence of that agreement. -- Rumi
There is someone who looks after us
from behind the curtain.
In truth we are not here, this is our shadow. -- Rumi
Do not leave me,
hide in my heart like a secret,
wind around my head like a turban.
"I come and go as I please,"
you say, "swift as a heartbeat."
You can tease me as much as you like
but never leave me. -- Rumi
Patience is the key to joy. -- Rumi
The world is a mirror, an imaging of Love's perfection. -- Rumi
Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire. -- Rumi
I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine. -- Rumi
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. -- Rumi
I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one. -- Rumi
Dance from here to the other world-and don't stop. -- Rumi
Indeed,
we are one soul,
you and me.
In the show
and hide you in me,
I am in you.
Here is the deeper meaning
of my relationship with you,
Because there is nor I, nor you.
between you and me. -- Rumi
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? -- Rumi
Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it. -- Rumi
For those who realize that everything is from God, everything is the same. -- Rumi
The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize. -- Rumi
Silence gives answers. -- Rumi
Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there. -- Rumi
If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health. -- Rumi
Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor. -- Rumi
Listen, open the heart's window
and keep looking at the Beloved.
The task of love is to open that window
so the heart can be illuminated by His Beauty.
Gaze incessantly at the Beloved's face.
That is your power, my friend -- Rumi
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face. -- Rumi
Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed. -- Rumi
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. -- Rumi
God Will Remain in you if duality Is Not Remain in You. -- Rumi
Love is fearless in the midst
of the sea of fear. -- Rumi
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl -- Rumi
A lifetime without Love is of no account Love is the Water of Life Drink it down with heart and soul! -- Rumi
You are my wine, my joy,
My garden, my springtime,
My slumber, my repose,
Without you, I can't cope. -- Rumi
Because the Beloved wants to know, unseen things become manifest. Hiding is the hidden purpose of creation. -- Rumi
Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers. -- Rumi
There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it. -- Rumi
They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire. -- Rumi
You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, -- Rumi
I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. -- Rumi
All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know! -- Rumi
Appear as you are, Be as you appear. -- Rumi
Love is neither a tale nor a game.
Love is such a powerful torrent
that no one can stand in front of it.
Love is the flame which, when it blazes,
consumes everything other than the Beloved -- Rumi
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear,
But love unexplained is clearer -- Rumi
I don't regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion. -- Rumi
Out beyond
the ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other'
doesn't make any sense. -- Rumi
A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection. -- Rumi
Wisdom tells us we are not worthy;
Love tells us we are.
My life flows between the two. -- Rumi
Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing. -- Rumi
You are the comfort of my soul
in the season of sorrow.
You are the wealth of my spirit
in the heartbreak of loss. -- Rumi
I went inside my heart
to see how it was.
Something there makes me hear
the whole world weeping. -- Rumi
Love is the bridge between you and everything. -- Rumi
You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment. -- Rumi
Treasure is stored in the ruined places.
Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people -- Rumi
Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that. -- Rumi
I look into your eyes & see the universe not yet born. -- Rumi
I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky. -- Rumi
The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it. -- Rumi
You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside -- Rumi
Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.
Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself. -- Rumi
In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same. -- Rumi
We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now! -- Rumi
Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue. -- Rumi
If you see Two in One - I only see One in Two -- Rumi
When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean. -- Rumi
Know that the mirror of the heart is boundless ... Here, opinions become silent, otherwise they will lead you into errors ... for the heart is sacred - even more the heart is sacredness itself. -- Rumi
The only way to measure a lover
is by the grandeur of the beloved. -- Rumi
That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again -- Rumi
If your heart isn't yet illumined
Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart,
Be at war continually with your carnal soul.
But if your heart is already awakened,
Sleep peacefully, sleep in the arms of Love -- Rumi
In the garden
I see only your face
From trees and blossoms
I inhale only your fragrance. -- Rumi
They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls? -- Rumi
Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know. -- Rumi
Go to the well of deep Love inside each of Us. -- Rumi
Then I looked within my own heart
and there I found Him
He was nowhere else. -- Rumi
And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security? -- Rumi
The message behind the words
is the voice of the heart. -- Rumi
Nothing can help me but that beauty.
There was a dawn I remember
when my soul heard something from your soul.
I drank water from your spring
and felt the current take me. -- Rumi
Stars burn clear
all night till dawn.
Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for. -- Rumi
If God should smile at someone once ..he then
will not hurt by bitter looks from men -- Rumi
All language is a longing for home. -- Rumi
Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down. -- Rumi
Your faces are very beautiful,
but they are wooden cages.
You had better run from me.
My words are fire. -- Rumi
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. -- Rumi
I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within. Look at me not with outward eye but with inward vision of the heart; Follow me there and see how unencumbered we become. -- Rumi
There is nothing I want but your presence.
In friendship, time dissolves.
Life is a cup. This connection
is pure wine. What else are cups for?
I used to have twenty thousand
different desires. -- Rumi
Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts. -- Rumi
If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become. -- Rumi
What was said to the rose that made it open, was said to me, here in my chest. -- Rumi
If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action. -- Rumi
My sight
My heart
My Life
All three words I have woven into one ... Love. -- Rumi
The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt. -- Rumi
We may know who we are or we may not
We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians
but until our hearts become the mould for every for every heart
we will only see our differences -- Rumi
From a distance you only see my light; as I get closer and you see that I am you. -- Rumi
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah ... it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. -- Rumi
This Love has whispered secrets in your ear that don't make sense to anybody else. You know who You are. You are the shining star. -- Rumi
I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence. -- Rumi
If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion. -- Rumi
The body is not hidden from the soul, nor is the soul hidden from the body, and yet the soul is not for everyone to see. -- Rumi
Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine? -- Rumi
Why are you so afraid of silence,
silence is the root of everything.
If you spiral into its void,
a hundred voices will thunder
messages you long to hear -- Rumi
Embark on the journey of LOVE. It takes you from yourself to yourself. -- Rumi
I died from a mineral and plant became, Died from the plant, took a sentient frame; Died from the beast, donned a human dress - When by my dying did I ever grow less ... -- Rumi
I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!" But if my heart that has gone mad! Those strings on my feet What is the point? -- Rumi
At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door
and open the love-window.
The moon won't use the door,
only the window. -- Rumi
You make my dance daring enough to finish. No more timidity. Let fruit fall, and wind turn my roots up in the air, done with patient waiting. -- Rumi
Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea. -- Rumi
When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth. -- Rumi
No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower.
So the nightbirds will start singing. -- Rumi
Two there are who are never satisfied
the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge. -- Rumi
You run back and forth listening for unusual events,
peering into the faces of travelers.
"Why are you looking at me like a madman?"
I have lost a friend. Please forgive me. -- Rumi
Let your soul turn into a mirror that passionately wants to reflect Joseph.
Hand him your present.
Now let silence speak. As that begins, we will start out. -- Rumi
I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled. -- Rumi
Love is cure,
Love is power,
Love is the magic of changes.
Love is the mirror, of divine beauty! -- Rumi
Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight is blind
and try to see a treasure in everyone. -- Rumi
Submit to love without thinking,
as the sun rose this morning
recklessly extinguishing
our star-candle minds. -- Rumi
You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky. -- Rumi
I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. -- Rumi
Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness. -- Rumi
Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof. -- Rumi
If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring. -- Rumi
Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. -- Rumi
Every need brings what's needed.
Pain bears its cure like a child.
Having nothing produces provisions.
Ask a difficult question,
And the marvelous answer appears. -- Rumi
Idle man, chases after fairy tales ... -- Rumi
In the silence of love
you will find the spark of life -- Rumi
If someone asks,
But what is Love?
Answer,
Dissolving the will. -- Rumi
If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing. -- Rumi
In our hearts there burns a fire ...
That burns all veils to their root and foundation
When those veils have been burned away
Then the heart will understand completely.
Ancient love will unfold ever-fresh forms
In the heart of the Spirit,
In the core of the heart. -- Rumi
There is a place where words are born of silence. -- Rumi
All creatures, day and night, make manifestation of Allah. Some of them know what they are doing and are aware of their manifesting, while others are unaware. However it may be, Allah's manifestation is confirmed. -- Rumi
Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space. -- Rumi
A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself. -- Rumi
I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul. -- Rumi
All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire. -- Rumi
There is a window between heart and heart:
They are never separate like two bodies.
Two lamps may not be united in their form -
But their light merges into each other. -- Rumi
The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires. -- Rumi
Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is. -- Rumi
I want a trouble-maker for a lover, blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, who burns like fire on the rushing sea. -- Rumi
Advice doesn't help lovers!
They're not the kind of mountain stream
you can build a dam across. -- Rumi
Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music. -- Rumi
If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul. -- Rumi
Your eyelashes will write on my heart
the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. -- Rumi
Here's the new rule: break the wineglass, and fall toward the glassblower's breath. -- Rumi
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty. -- Rumi
I was once like you, enlightened and "rational",
I too scoffed at lovers,
Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery.
No one is safe! Watch out. -- Rumi
There's a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance. -- Rumi
Each moment contains a hundred messages from God. -- Rumi
Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name. -- Rumi
Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. -- Rumi
When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine. -- Rumi
Don't try to steer the boat.
Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent.
You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear,
And if you do speak, ask for explanations. -- Rumi
Apparently two, but one in soul, you and I ... -- Rumi
Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness. -- Rumi
You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light. -- Rumi
People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another. -- Rumi
Keep walking, though there's no place to get to.
Don't try to see through the distances.
That's not for human beings. Move within,
But don't move the way fear makes you move. -- Rumi
Once we were particles of Light, now we are Beings of Light, radiating Love. -- Rumi
One cannot lodge in if. -- Rumi
Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being. -- Rumi
The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth. -- Rumi
In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity. -- Rumi
A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it. -- Rumi
The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things. -- Rumi
You show your worth by what you seek. -- Rumi
Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty. -- Rumi
I was you
and never knew it. -- Rumi
Angels dance only with You, Beloved
and only before You do I bow in adoration.
You may accept me or not but I will be at your feet forever. -- Rumi
Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
where something might be planted,
a seed, possibly, from the Absolute. -- Rumi
Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms. -- Rumi
With each passing moment, a Soul sets off to find Itself. -- Rumi
There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness. -- Rumi
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. -- Rumi
If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast. -- Rumi
Whatever you know, or don't - only Love is real. -- Rumi
I wrote
Your Name
in My Heart
and
Forever
it will Stay. -- Rumi
Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. -- Rumi
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. -- Rumi
Someday our souls will be one and
our union will be forever.
I know that everything I give you comes back to me.
So I give you my life , hoping that you will come back to me. -- Rumi
Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other. -- Rumi
The lion is most handsome when looking for food. -- Rumi
When you are with everyone but me,
you're with no one.
When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone.
Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you
become that many, you're nothing. Empty. -- Rumi
You moan, "She left me." "He left me,"
Twenty more will come. -- Rumi
You are water, whirling water,
Yet still water trapped within,
Come, submerge yourself within us,
We who are the flowing stream. -- Rumi
A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke. -- Rumi
Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets. -- Rumi
Here is a story of a young prince who suddenly sees that the ambitious world is a big game of king
of the mountain, a boy scrambling up a pile of sand to call out, "I am king"; then another
throws him off to make his momentary claim, then another and so on. -- Rumi
At a distance you only see my light ...
Come closer and Know that I am You -- Rumi
There's courage involved if you want to become Truth. -- Rumi
I must keep silent. Silent. And let Love describe itself. -- Rumi
If you can't smell the fragrance
don't come into the garden of Love.
if you are unwilling to undress
don't enter into the stream of
Truth. Stay where you are, don't
come our way -- Rumi
What you have despised in yourself
as a thorn opens into a rose. -- Rumi
A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. -- Rumi
Know mankind well,
don't degrade every man as evil,
and don't exalt every man
thinking he is good.
He who cannot discover himself;
cannot discover the world. -- Rumi
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one -- Rumi
Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy. -- Rumi
O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God. -- Rumi
A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart. -- Rumi
Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last. -- Rumi
Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key! -- Rumi
Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love. -- Rumi
Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments. -- Rumi
Love is such a vast sea, it has neither edges nor ends nor corners. -- Rumi
How can you ever hope to know the Beloved
Without becoming in every cell the Lover? -- Rumi
What strikes the oyster shell
doesn't damage the pearl. -- Rumi
Those with lives filled with laughter and sorrow,
Have no choice but to live between the two, in borrow.
Where is the green garden of love, that's infinite?
More than sorrow and laughter, plenty of fruits in it. -- Rumi
Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn and take a seat in another room. Soul-makers find each other's company. -- Rumi
When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt,
pain itself will crack the rock and Ah!
Let the soul emerge ... -- Rumi
Whatever purifies you is the correct road. -- Rumi
Each night the moon kisses secretly
the lover who counts the stars -- Rumi
And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow. -- Rumi
We all face death in the end. But on the way, be careful never to hurt a human heart! -- Rumi
All the particles of the World are in Love
and looking for Lovers. -- Rumi
Let lovers be crazy, disgraceful and wild Those who fret about such things Aren't in love. -- Rumi
Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again. -- Rumi
Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source. -- Rumi
We can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror -- Rumi
Whoever gives reverence receives reverence -- Rumi
God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery. -- Rumi
I said "show me the ladder, that I may climb up to heaven '
He said "your head is the ladder, bring your head down under your feet -- Rumi
Bring anger and pride under your feet,
turn them into a ladder and climb higher. -- Rumi
My soul Is Naked.
It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love. -- Rumi
Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key. -- Rumi
It's no good giving my heart and my
Soul because you already have these.
So I've brought you a mirror.
Look at yourself and remember me. -- Rumi
ONCE a beloved asked her lover: "Friend,
You have seen many places in the world!
Now - which of all these cities was the best?
He said: "The city where my sweetheart lives! -- Rumi
Be motivated like the falcon,
hunt gloriously.
Be magnificent as the leopard,
fight to win.
Spend less time with
nightingales and peacocks.
One is all talk,
the other only color. -- Rumi
Life Is Sweet
But Merging With You
Is Far Sweeter -- Rumi
Let me praise you tonight.
Because tomorrow you cannot be described by words,
While describing you.
Tomorrow, earth and sky will disappear altogether. -- Rumi
Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything. -- Rumi
We are the Sun with all the different
kinds of Light. -- Rumi
You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence. -- Rumi
The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run loose in the pasture. -- Rumi
The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece. -- Rumi
The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do. -- Rumi
To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life. -- Rumi
Love means to reach for the sky
and with every breath to tear a
hundred veils. Love means to step
away from the ego, to open the eyes
of inner vision and not to take this
world so seriously -- Rumi
Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed." -- Rumi
The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love. -- Rumi
The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked -- Rumi
What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life. -- Rumi
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created. -- Rumi
There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes. -- Rumi
When LOVE for GOD has been doubled in your HEART,
there is no doubt that GOD has love for YOU. -- Rumi
Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al -- Rumi
God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him. -- Rumi
To Love is to reach God. -- Rumi
God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning. -- Rumi
Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart. -- Rumi
Lots of ways to reach God,
I chose love. -- Rumi
Jesus was lost in his love for God. -- Rumi
God put thorns around the
Love's door to stop anyone
who's not a Lover from entering. -- Rumi
There are thousands of wines
that can take over our minds.
Don't think all ecstasies
are the same!
Jesus was lost in his love for God.
His donkey was drunk with barley. -- Rumi
If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long. -- 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
I'm the devoted slave of anyone who doesn't claim to have attained dining with God at every way station. Many inns must be left behind before you reach your home. -- Rumi
Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God. -- Rumi
God has given us a dark wine so potent that, drinking it, we leave the two worlds. -- Rumi
God does not look at your outer forms,
but at the love within your love. -- Rumi
Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God. -- Rumi
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself. -- Rumi
Remember God so much that you are forgotten. -- Rumi
I am your own voice echoing off the walls of God -- Rumi
The lovers of God have no religion but God alone. -- Rumi
Love is the house of God and you are living in that house. -- Rumi
The wit taught by God to the bee
Is withheld from the lion and the wild ass. -- Rumi
Every prophet and every saint has a way, But all lead to God. All ways are really one. -- Rumi
Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you. -- Rumi
I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak. -- Rumi
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. -- Rumi
Whether one moves
slowly or with speed,
the one who
is a seeker
will be a finder. -- Rumi
And he misses her
Like a wind starved sail
He sits knowing what direction to go
But the current keeps pulling him
Down river. -- Rumi
Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing. -- Rumi
Some nights stay up till dawn,
as the moon sometimes does for the sun.
Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way
of a well, then lifted out into light. -- Rumi
Be the rising Moon in my dark nights.
I am thirsty for your Light. -- Rumi
Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting. -- Rumi
I say, Show me the way.
You say, Put your head
under your feet.
That way you rise through the stars
and see a hundred different ways
to be with me. -- Rumi
I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful. -- Rumi
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. -- Rumi
Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing. -- Rumi
And from beyond the intellect, beautiful Love
comes dragging her skirts, a cup of wine in her hand. -- Rumi
You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself -- Rumi
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don't recognize a person's true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader. -- Rumi
Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love. -- Rumi
I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind. -- Rumi
The whole business of love is to drown in the sea. -- Rumi
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. -- Rumi
You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck! -- Rumi
Speak with the language of love. -- Rumi
The Lover is ever drunk with Love.
He is mad. She is free.
He sings with delight. She dances in ecstasy.
Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything.
But once we get drunk on that Love
Whatever will be, will be. -- Rumi
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. -- Rumi
Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego. -- Rumi
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul. -- Rumi
If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment. -- Rumi
Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe. -- Rumi
Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds. -- Rumi
We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here. -- Rumi
Love is an emerald.
Its brilliant light wards off dragons
On this treacherous path. -- Rumi
Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness. -- Rumi
A true Lover is proved such by his pain of Heart!
No sickness is there like sickness of Heart!!! -- Rumi
Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk. -- Rumi
Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with it we probe the divine. -- Rumi
No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul. -- Rumi
Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief. -- Rumi
Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast!
For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself. -- Rumi
Tonight the moon kisses the stars.
O beloved,be like that to me! -- Rumi
You know what love is?
It is all kindness, generosity. -- Rumi
Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird. -- Rumi
When you stop admiring yourself
and let the eyes of the heart
open your vision to vast other worlds
then all you do, will become admirable -- Rumi
I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty. -- Rumi
Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony. -- Rumi
Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal. -- Rumi
Shadows can indicate what's shining bright But it's the sun which fills your soul with light, -- Rumi
As long as you are crawling like a snake on this earth do not hope to swim like fish in the sea of Spirit. -- Rumi
Let the beauty we love do what we do. -- Rumi
In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion. -- Rumi
By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut, but the door of repentance is never closed. Come seize the opportunity: the door is open; carry your baggage there at once. -- Rumi
Love is the sea where intellect drowns. -- Rumi
Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. -- Rumi
If words come from the heart, they will enter the heart. If they come from the tongue, they will not pass beyond the ears. -- Rumi
Poems are rough notations for the music we are. -- Rumi
That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change. -- Rumi
Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things. -- Rumi
He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal. -- Rumi
To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel. -- Rumi
Are you searching for the river of your soul?
Then come out of your prison.
Leave the stream
and join the river
that flows into the ocean. -- Rumi
The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you. -- Rumi
Behead yourself! ... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing! -- Rumi
In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear. -- Rumi
When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth. -- Rumi
If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows. -- Rumi
Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Is the ground worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur. -- Rumi
Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum. -- Rumi
The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected. -- Rumi
Love alone can explain the mysteries of Love. -- Rumi
Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream. -- Rumi
For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.
From within, I couldn't decide what to do.
Unable to see, I heard my name being called.
Then I walked outside. -- Rumi
If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak. -- Rumi
The here-and-now mountain
is a tiny piece of a piece of straw
blown off into emptiness. -- Rumi
Life s picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment. -- Rumi
Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit. -- Rumi
The lover never despairs.
For a committed heart everything is possible. -- Rumi
Sometimes I Do In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that light becomes this art. -- Rumi
There is a place where voices sing your beauty,
A place where every breath carves your image in my soul. -- Rumi
Stay together, friends.
Don't scatter and sleep.
Our friendship is made
of being awake. -- Rumi
Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less. -- Rumi
The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle. -- Rumi
Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient. -- Rumi
Don't hand me another glass of wine. Pour it in my mouth. I've lost the way to my mouth. -- Rumi
Finding faults is for those with tired minds. -- Rumi
In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal. -- Rumi
There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. -- Rumi
If i can only recount
the story of my life
right out of my body
flames will grow -- Rumi
While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away. -- Rumi
My beloved grows Right out of my own heart How much more union can there be. -- Rumi
I don't know why; when I look at you, I see myself -- Rumi
The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache. -- Rumi
Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed. -- Rumi
This mirror inside me shows. I can't say what, but I can't not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere. -- Rumi
This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight. -- Rumi
You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness. -- Rumi
On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter. -- Rumi
No one becomes a scholar by virtue of robe and turban. Scholarship is a virtue in its very essence, and whether that virtue is clothed in tunic or overcoat, it makes no difference. -- Rumi
Lay aside caution, it cannot help thee against destiny; to worry with precaution is to toil and moil; go, trust in providence, trust in the better part. -- Rumi
How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire. -- Rumi
May these vows and this marriage be blessed. -- Rumi
There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket. -- Rumi
While the mind sees only boundaries,
Love knows the secret way there. -- Rumi
Some people say about human beings, 'Dust to dust'.
But how can that be true of one
who changes road dust to doorway?
The crop appears to be one thing
when it is still in the field.
Then the transformation time comes,
and we see how it is: half chaff, half grain. -- Rumi
For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed. -- Rumi
You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. -- Rumi
Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine. -- Rumi
Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light. -- Rumi
It is Love that gives joy to happiness. -- Rumi
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction. -- Rumi
War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible. -- Rumi
You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it. -- Rumi
Everything has to do with loving and not loving. -- Rumi
If there were no grace and no kindness,
conversation would be useless, and nothing we do would matter. Listen
to the new stories that begin every day. If light were not beginning
again in the east, I would not now wake and walk out inside this dawn. -- Rumi
Open your hands if you want to be held. -- Rumi
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. -- Rumi
My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold. -- Rumi
We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. -- Rumi
You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean -- Rumi
Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east. -- Rumi
To the mind there is such a thing as news, whereas to inner knowing, it's all in the middle of its happening. To doubters, this is a pain. To believers, it's gospel. To the lover and the visionary, it's life as it's being lived. -- Rumi
What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart -- Rumi
I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light. -- Rumi
I always thought that
I was me - but no,
I was you
and never knew it. -- Rumi
Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you. -- Rumi
Forget every touch or sound that did not teach you how to dance -- Rumi
If you have much, give of your wealth;
If you have little, give of your Heart. -- Rumi
For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back. -- Rumi
Be like sugarcane sweet yet silent
don't get mixed up with bitter words -- Rumi
Walk patiently through this troubled world,
and you will find great treasure.
Even though your house may be small,
look within it! -- Rumi
There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been. -- Rumi
I eliminated duality with joyous laughter
Saw the unity of here and the hereafter
Unity is what I sing, unity is what I speak
Unity is what I know, unity is what I seek -- Rumi
Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace -- Rumi
Be like the cat, so alive after the mouse, never wondering or questioning why,
when there is really only God, only God ...
touching our
paws. -- Rumi
Any one in love
will have no religion. -- Rumi
Beyond ideas, there's a field. Will you meet me there? -- Rumi
I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover -- Rumi
Make your last journey
from this strange world
soar for the heights
where there is no more
separation of you and your home
God has created
your wings not to be dormant
as long as you are alive
you must try more and more
to use your wings to show you're alive -- Rumi
Wings of Love long only to fly away from all directions. -- Rumi
The grief you cry out from
draws you toward union.
Your pure sadness
that wants help
is the secret cup. -- Rumi
Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time! -- Rumi
The soul lives there in the silent breath. -- Rumi
Half-Heartedness Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness does not reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at mean-spirited roadhouses. -- Rumi
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. -- Rumi
Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible. -- Rumi
Why are you so enchanted by this world
when a mine of gold lies within you? -- Rumi
Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet. -- Rumi
The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world. -- Rumi
The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites -- Rumi
Trust means you're ready to risk what you currently have. -- Rumi
The moon has become a dancer
at this festival of LOVE. -- Rumi
The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that? -- Rumi
The word grows mad on the ferment
Of angry actions, the authorities can only inflict
Visible punishments. Now regard with the unpracticed
Inner eye the unseen presence of Judgement then
You will understand the nature of your soul's torment -- Rumi
Look carefully around you and recognize
the luminosity of souls.
Sit beside those who draw you to that. -- Rumi
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. -- Rumi
The quiter you become, the more able you are to hear -- Rumi
The mind says there is nothing beyond the physical world; the HEART says there is, and I've been there many times. -- Rumi
When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place. -- Rumi
Submit to love without thinking -- Rumi
For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times. -- Rumi
Your sweetest blasphemy is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed. -- Rumi
Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see. -- Rumi
If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens. -- Rumi
The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why. -- Rumi
Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love -- Rumi
When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit. -- Rumi
If I could repeat it,
people passing by would be enlightened and go free. -- Rumi
You are the honoured guest,
Do not weep like a beggar
For pieces of the world. -- Rumi
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a day. -- Rumi
If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread.
If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul.
If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek. -- Rumi
What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you. -- Rumi
Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant. -- Rumi
I like to hope that Rumi's poems, even in translation, carry the essence of the transforming friendship of Rumi and Shams, that the sun can reappear, whole and radiant in any one of us at any moment. -- Rumi
We are all bathed in the same light. -- Rumi
I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain. -- Rumi
When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated. -- Rumi
Your Soul and Mine. Use to be mingled. Breathing as One. Journeying as One. -- Rumi
The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one. -- Rumi
One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear. -- Rumi
When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope ... -- Rumi
Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face. -- Rumi
Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one. -- Rumi
We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. -- Rumi
The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage. -- Rumi
The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart. -- Rumi
The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night. -- Rumi
If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart. -- Rumi
My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. -- Rumi
This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives. -- Rumi
From understanding comes LOVE. -- Rumi
In the middle of my heart, a star appeared, and the seven heavens were lost in its brilliance. -- Rumi
Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be doing as much for this universe as anyone. -- Rumi
Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent. -- Rumi
We are the fingertips of blind illusion,
You are the absolute Cause of causes. -- Rumi
If thou has not seen the devil, look at thine own self. -- Rumi
Only the soul knows what love is. -- Rumi
Your radiance shines
in every atom of creation
yet our petty desires keep it hidden. -- Rumi
I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven. -- Rumi
I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me. If I Cry About It, Or If I Don't, The Fire Is At Work, Night And Day. -- Rumi
Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening. -- Rumi
Let your throat-song
be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length
suppliant, at the door. -- Rumi
He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun -- Rumi
Why should I be unhappy?
Every parcel of my being
is in full bloom. -- Rumi
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. -- Rumi
Your misconceptions veil the holy. The Princess is naked
beneath the surface of every form. Your boredom would
vanish if you had more of a clue about the Reality I know. -- Rumi
Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth. When you ask, the answer will be given.' -- Rumi
You are the source of the sun.
And I am the willow's shadow.
Oh, you have struck me on the head,
Wretch that I am, on fire am I. -- Rumi
Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls -- Rumi
Kindle in thy heart the flame of love. -- Rumi
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it. -- Rumi
To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your own heart. -- Rumi
Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart. -- Rumi
There is only one search: wandering ... no dogma and no heresy. -- Rumi
Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love. -- Rumi
If you put your heart against the earth with me
In serving every creature, our Beloved will enter you
From our sacred realm, and we will be, we will be
So happy. -- Rumi
Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy. -- Rumi
Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths. -- Rumi
Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love. -- Rumi
Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ? -- Rumi
If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted. -- Rumi
Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love. -- Rumi
We are the the night ocean filled with glints of light. We are the space between the fish and the moon, while we sit here together. -- Rumi
My sweet heart,
you have aroused my passion,
your touch has filled me with desire,
I am no longer separate from you,
these are precious moments,
I beseech you,
don't let me wait, -- Rumi
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear. -- Rumi
But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres. -- Rumi
Doing as others told me, I was Blind.
Coming when others called me, I was Lost.
Then I left everyone, myself as well.
Then I found Everyone, Myself as well. -- Rumi
Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I'll meet you there -- Rumi
Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply. -- Rumi
I have spent my life dreaming of your face. Now, I have found it. -- Rumi
Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved. -- Rumi
The heart is the secret inside the secret. -- Rumi
Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure. -- Rumi
Oh, wandering One, if you are in search of the greatest treasure, don't look outside. Look within, and seek That. -- Rumi
All is known in the sacredness of silence. -- Rumi
To Love is to be God.
Never will a Lover's chest
feel any sorrow.
Never will a Lover's robe
be touched by mortals.
Never will a Lover's body
be found buried in the earth.
To Love is to be God. -- Rumi
Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe. -- Rumi
This that is tormented and very tired,
tortured with restraints like a madman,
this heart. -- Rumi
There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter. -- Rumi
Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open. -- Rumi
For me to praise is interrupting praise. -- Rumi
There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it. -- Rumi
If you wish for light, Be ready to receive light. -- Rumi
Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak. -- Rumi
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. -- Rumi
Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden. -- Rumi
You were sent to unite people
You were not been sent to divide people. -- Rumi
When a bird gets free, it does not go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage. -- Rumi
Raise your words, not your voice. -- Rumi
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. -- Rumi
You are the soul of the soul of the universe, and your name is Love. -- Rumi
There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there. -- Rumi
You are guardian of a treasure,
Oh, just like a sleeping serpent
And you shall see, I shall make you
Spin around like that sleepy snake.
Listen to me. -- Rumi
They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion. -- Rumi
Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace. -- Rumi
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. -- Rumi
Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like. -- Rumi
This world
hurts
my head
with its answers.
I would burn if I had a choice. -- Rumi
Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy -- Rumi
All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep. -- Rumi
World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters. -- Rumi
The Real Beloved is that one who is Unique,
who is your Beginning and your End. -- Rumi
And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous. -- Rumi
First, when I was apart from you,
this world did not exist, nor any other.
Second, whatever I was looking for
was always you. -- Rumi
Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved. -- Rumi
I am a tambourine. Don't put me aside
till the fast dancing starts.
Play me some all along.
Help me with these little sounds. -- Rumi
Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace. -- Rumi
You think the shadow is the substance. -- Rumi
Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly. -- Rumi
Dance when you're perfectly free. -- Rumi
A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known. -- Rumi
Everything is soul and flowering. -- Rumi
People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites. -- Rumi
When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing. -- Rumi
When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at the giver. -- Rumi
Always check your inner state
with the lord of your HEART. -- Rumi
Don't regret what's happened.
If it's in the past, LET IT GO.
Don't even remember it! -- Rumi
Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself. -- Rumi
The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder. -- Rumi
Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself ... -- Rumi
Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face,
for i see you there,
my dear. -- Rumi
The radiant one in me has never said a word ... -- Rumi
Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore. -- Rumi
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. -- Rumi
Live life as if its rigged in your favor. -- Rumi
Only love itself can explain love and lovers. -- Rumi
No prayer is complete without prescence -- Rumi
Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give. -- Rumi
Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul. -- Rumi
Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul. -- Rumi
Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there. -- Rumi
My religion is, to live through Love. -- Rumi
Whatever happens. Whatever what is is is what I want. Only that. But that. -- Rumi
The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer! -- Rumi
YOU ARE SUCH
THAT BESIDES THIS (PHYSICAL) BODY
YOU HAVE ANOTHER (ASTRAL) BODY.
DO NOT THEREFORE BE AFRAID
OF GETTING OUT
OF THE MORTAL FRAME. -- Rumi
Everyone is overridden by thoughts;
that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow. -- Rumi
If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road. -- Rumi
Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. -- Rumi
What can I do my friends, if I do not know?
I am neither Christian nor Jew, nor Muslim nor Hindu.
What can I do? What can I do?
Not of the East, nor of the West,
Nor of the land, nor of the sea,
Not of nature's essence, nor of circling heavens.
What could I be? -- Rumi
How did you get here?
Close your eyes ...
and surrender! -- Rumi
Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away. -- Rumi
Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being. -- Rumi
This dance is the joy of existence. -- Rumi
Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you? -- Rumi
I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet! -- Rumi
Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting. -- Rumi
I said, "Show me what to do."
He said, Die.
I said, "The water has turned into oil."
He said, Die.
I said, "I will become a butterfly
circling around your light."
He said, Die. -- Rumi
The thirsty look for water, but water also looks for thirsty. -- Rumi
Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there. -- Rumi
Don't you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds. -- Rumi
You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop. -- Rumi
Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy. -- Rumi
The water has a Water that is driving it;
The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it. -- Rumi
Love is nothing other than finding the truth. -- Rumi
I am part of the load not rightly balanced ... -- Rumi
In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. -- Rumi
The moment an inspiring thought enters your heart, appreciate it as a dear guest visiting you that day. -- Rumi
The rule that covers everything is: how you are with others, expect that back. -- Rumi
Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the jug; go, seek the water! -- Rumi
Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky. -- Rumi
Your earthly lover can be charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousand doors. -- Rumi
There comes a holy
and transparent time
when every touch
of beauty
opens the heart
to tears.
This is the time
the Beloved of heaven
is brought tenderly on earth.
This is the time
of the opening
of the ROSE. -- Rumi
I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing -- Rumi
This is Now. Now is,
all there is. Don't wait for Then;
strike the spark, light the fire. -- Rumi
There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes. -- Rumi
Love will find its way through all languages on its own. -- Rumi
No more words. Hear only the voice within. -- Rumi
Once you have met a true human being,
Let him not disappear from the horizon of your HEART. -- Rumi
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. -- Rumi
If light is in your heart, you will find your way home. -- Rumi
A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man. -- Rumi
We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts. -- Rumi
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself? -- Rumi
You live in my heart where no one sees you but I do. That vision becomes this art. -- Rumi
The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself. -- Rumi
Sometimes the shadow stays next to the Light. Sometimes it disappears into the Light -- Rumi
Do not waste my words on tired minds.
I can only talk to those who are thirsty
for the sea. -- Rumi
What is the Heart?
A flower opening ... -- Rumi
Hold on to the reins of Love and don't be afraid.
Hold on to the real behind the false and don't be
afraid. -- Rumi
The one who has a good friend doesn't need any mirror. -- Rumi
There's no cure, except the retreat into love,
For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts. -- Rumi
He who tastes not, knows not. -- Rumi
What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs. -- Rumi
I shall be happy Even for insults from you I only ask that you Keep some attention on me. -- Rumi
Those with open hearts always have open hands. -- Rumi
A special spark rises
from the sorrow of a burning heart.
Have you ever heard
how the sigh of a broken heart
touches the Beloved? -- Rumi
The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did. -- Rumi
I have searched all over the world but failed to see a virtue better than being well-behaved. -- Rumi
When we talk about GOD,
we're like a school of fish,
discussing the possible existence of the sea. -- Rumi
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
every success depends upon focusing the heart. -- Rumi
Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others. -- Rumi
Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today. -- Rumi
I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One. -- Rumi
Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours. -- Rumi
When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted -- Rumi
You are the mirror of divine beauty. -- Rumi
We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat! ... -- Rumi
As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner. -- Rumi
The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping. -- Rumi
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace. -- Rumi
Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins? -- Rumi
Revile those who flatter you. -- Rumi
Choose to love the one who does not die -- Rumi
Look past your thoughts, so you may
drink the pure nectar of This Moment. -- Rumi
Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere? -- Rumi
The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground. -- Rumi
I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind. -- Rumi
The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are. -- Rumi
If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical. -- Rumi
Is your face a beautiful blossom
or a sweet torture?
I have no complaints
but my heart is tempted
to let you
hear of its sorrows. -- Rumi
Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment. -- Rumi
In the Friend-place nothing true can be said. Let Me Just Be Here. -- Rumi
Don't look for Love, look for the one looking for Love. -- Rumi
The body is a device to calculate
the astronomy of the spirit.
Look through that astrolabe
and become oceanic. -- Rumi
No One in the Entire World is as Precious as You are. -- Rumi
Let yourself become living poetry. -- Rumi
Love, the life-giving garden of this world. -- Rumi
Magicians can be confusing, but
when Moses arrives and throws down the rod that becomes a dragon, how do the trick bowls
look then? When something that alive comes, illusory matters fade. They quit bragging!
A body's death, even, is beautiful to those who see with the soul's eye. -- Rumi
For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth. -- Rumi
Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies.
Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance.
You will come to see that all evolves us. -- Rumi
You transform all who are touched by you.
Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows
dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY. -- Rumi
Awake asleep ought to be with us - So he may see dreams in wakefulness. -- Rumi
The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light. -- Rumi
I cried because my 3G was down, until I met a man who had no smartphone. -- Rumi
Open to me, so that I may open.
Provide me your inspiration
So that I might see mine. -- Rumi
The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute? -- Rumi
To find the Beloved, you must become the Beloved. -- Rumi
GOD Has Planted in Your Heart [ ] The Desire To Search For HIM. Do Not Look At Your Weaknesses But Focus on The Search. Every Seeker is Worthy of This Search. Strive To Redouble Your Efforts, So That Your Soul May Escape From This Material Prison. -- Rumi
You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky. -- Rumi
Limp along until your legs are spent,
and you fall flat and your energy is drained.
Then the grace of the Divine will lift you. -- Rumi
When I say the word You, I mean
a hundred universes. -- Rumi
Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken. -- Rumi
Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all. -- Rumi
You that give new life to this planet, you that transcend logic, come. I am only an arrow. Fill your bow with me and let fly. -- Rumi
You will learn by reading,
But you will understand with LOVE. -- Rumi
The world is a playground, and death is the night. -- Rumi
Open your Eyes, for this World is only a Dream. -- Rumi
The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around! -- Rumi
Come with me while the wine shop is still open.
We are dizzy with meeting each other. -- Rumi
There is no way into Presence except through a love exchange. -- Rumi
Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason. -- Rumi
You're water. We're the millstone.
You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.
You're spirit. We're the opening and closing
of our hands. You're the clarity.
We're the language that tries to say it.
You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing. -- Rumi
Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds. -- Rumi
In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances -- Rumi
A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see. -- Rumi
A royal spirit escaped from a prison: why should we rend our garments and how should we gnaw our hands?
Since they were monarchs of the (true) religion, 'twas the hour of joy (for them) when they broke their bonds. -- Rumi
Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love. -- Rumi
The love religion is all that is written here. -- Rumi
But can you think of anyone who's not hazy with smoke? -- Rumi
This whole universe is but a drop
of His Beauty! -- Rumi
The Heart is like a candle,
longing to be lit! -- Rumi
There's a path from your HEART to mine. -- Rumi
Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry. -- Rumi
Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe. -- Rumi
You have within you more love than you could ever understand. -- Rumi
There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity. -- Rumi
This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are. -- Rumi
I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways. -- Rumi
Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting. -- Rumi
The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise. -- Rumi
Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it. -- Rumi
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you? -- Rumi
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. -- Rumi
Flow down and down in always widening rings of being. -- Rumi
Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around. -- Rumi
Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors,
I want burning, burning, burning. -- Rumi
Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being. -- Rumi
Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another ... It's all praise, and it's all right. -- Rumi
Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody. -- Rumi
Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness. -- Rumi
Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear. -- Rumi
Everyone turns toward someone. Look for one scarred by the King's polo stick. -- Rumi
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. -- Rumi
A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger ... -- Rumi
What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached. -- Rumi
Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love. -- Rumi
Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God -- Rumi
The Heart of the matter is Soul, nothing else ... -- Rumi
Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work. -- Rumi
Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you love. You will not be led astray. -- Rumi
Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze,
but as they sway they connect at the roots. -- Rumi
The pathless path opens
whenever you genuinely say, There is no reality but God. There is only God. -- Rumi
Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints? -- Rumi
I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You. -- Rumi
Let's get away from
all the clever humans
who put words in our mouth
let's only say what our hearts desire. -- Rumi
Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else. -- Rumi
Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you. -- Rumi
Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself. -- Rumi
What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim. -- Rumi
When your heart becomes the grave of your secret, that desire of your will be gained more quickly. -- Rumi
Stop learning. Start knowing -- Rumi
The work of magic is this, that it breathes and at every breath transforms realities. -- Rumi
I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast. -- Rumi
The only thing that will keep you from finding that which you seek is calling off the search. -- Rumi
Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion. -- Rumi
Today, you have been inside my eyes all day.
I am confused, upside down.
You are so near and so obvious,
I feel apart from you.
I am so aware of you,
I know nothing. -- Rumi
Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen. -- Rumi
A soul which is not clothed
with the inner garment of Love
should be ashamed of its existence. -- Rumi
Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing. -- Rumi
If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away. -- Rumi
Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions. -- Rumi
You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'. -- Rumi
Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck. -- Rumi
If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire. -- Rumi
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? You feel the separation from the Beloved. Invite Him to fill you up, embrace the fire. -- Rumi
When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off;
you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy.
... People fancy they are enjoying themselves,
but they are really tearing out their wings
for the sake of an illusion. -- Rumi
Be crumbled.
So wild flowers will come up where you are.
You have been stony for too many years.
Try something different.
Surrender. -- Rumi
My Soul is my Guide,
for my Soul is of that Abode
I will not Speak of the Earthly,
I am of the Unknown. -- Rumi
Inside a Lover's Heart,there's another world,and yet another. -- Rumi
The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being. -- Rumi
Don't look to anyone for your needs,
for the One who created you,
waters you. -- Rumi
Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other. -- Rumi
Trade your cleverness for bewilderment. -- Rumi
In the desire of the One to know Himself,
We exist. -- Rumi
You are the Soul
and the medicine for what wounds the Soul. -- Rumi
You are as you are,
an indescribable message on the air. -- Rumi
I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being. -- Rumi
A Breath of love can take you all the way to infinity -- Rumi
I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is. -- Rumi
Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation! -- Rumi
O Beloved, where is the Beloved? -- Rumi
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. -- Rumi
Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. -- Rumi
You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper! -- Rumi
The Beloved is with you in the midst of your seeking! He holds your hand wherever you wander. -- Rumi
When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music. -- Rumi
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. -- Rumi
Forgive: if you never know forgiveness,
You'll never know the blessings that God gives. -- Rumi
LOVE is
what gives joy
to giving joy. -- Rumi
The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak. -- Rumi
Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars. -- Rumi
I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away. -- Rumi
My Beloved
Know that my beloved in hidden from everyone
Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs
Know that in my heart she is as clear as the moon
Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul -- Rumi
Love is not an emotion, it's your very existence -- Rumi
Listen . Keep silent .
You are not gods mouthpiece.
Try to be an ear. -- Rumi
You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know? -- Rumi
We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust ...
The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance. -- Rumi
In your beauty, how to make poems. -- Rumi
In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance. -- Rumi
The hurt you embrace becomes joy. -- Rumi
Why are you knocking at every door ?
Go, knock at the door of your own heart. -- Rumi
Of all you see, only love is infinite. -- Rumi
Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within. -- Rumi
Deep in the HEART every mystery of spirit is hidden. -- Rumi
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. -- Rumi
What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being. -- Rumi
There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it. -- Rumi
Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person. -- Rumi
Nothing can nourish the SOUL but LIGHT. -- Rumi
Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there. -- Rumi
Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless. -- Rumi
My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage -- Rumi
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home. -- Rumi
If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart. -- Rumi
Your spirit is mingled with mine what touches you, touches me. -- Rumi
We cannot say much about love at first sight. It happens, and we live in the wake of a new life. -- Rumi
It is Love that holds everything together, and it is the everything also. -- Rumi
Lovely days don't come to you, you should walk to them. -- Rumi
Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the Meaning of Humility. -- Rumi
Your task?
To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light. -- Rumi
Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another -- Rumi
Beyond what we wish
and what we fear may happen
we have another life,
as clear and free as a mountain stream. -- Rumi
Life's waters flow from darkness, Search the darkness, don't run from it. -- Rumi
Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight. -- Rumi
There is an original inside me. -- Rumi
Yesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one -- Rumi
O, happy the soul that saw its own faults. -- Rumi
Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad. -- Rumi
Criticism polishes my mirror. -- Rumi
Open the window of your heart and let the Spirit speak -- Rumi
WHEN YOU ARE FREED FROM THIS BODY
YOU WILL ENTER INTO A NEW WORLD
WITHOUT ANY EFFORT. -- Rumi
You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose? -- Rumi
Love has come to rule and transform; Stay awake, my heart, stay awake. -- Rumi
It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost. -- Rumi
Travel brings power and love back into your life. -- Rumi
The sky itself reels with Love. -- Rumi
I opened my arms to Love and Love embraced me like a Lover -- Rumi
Come to the Root of the Root of your Self -- Rumi
Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you. -- Rumi
I, you, he, she, we
In the garden of mystic lovers,
these are not true distinctions. -- Rumi
How far is the light of the moon from the moon? How far is the taste of candy from the lip? -- Rumi
We must die to become true human beings. -- Rumi
You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent, it will be as if you have done nothing. -- Rumi
What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description. -- Rumi
Respond to every call that excites your spirit. -- Rumi
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean. -- Rumi
The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you. -- Rumi
If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak? -- Rumi
There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies. -- Rumi
I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire. -- Rumi
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. -- Rumi
When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish.
Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul. -- Rumi
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. -- Rumi
She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her. -- Rumi
Last night I learned how to be a lover of God. To live in this world and call nothing my own. -- Rumi
Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain. -- Rumi
Love is nothing but felicity and loving kindness,
It is nothing but gladness and right guidance. -- Rumi
Every bird will follow it's specie. -- Rumi
Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises -- Rumi
Don't stray from your Heart's intent. -- Rumi
Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means death. -- Rumi
Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you. -- Rumi
There are lovers content with longing.
I'm not one of them. -- Rumi
The spirit is so near that you can't see it!
But reach for it ... don't be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him. -- Rumi
What you're seeking is seeking you. -- Rumi
With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart. -- Rumi
Humble yourself, you'll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you. -- Rumi
No need to announce the future! This now is it. This. Your deepest need and desire is satisfied by the moment's energy here in your hand. -- Rumi
I have put the ear of my soul in the widow
of your heart -- Rumi
My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners. -- Rumi
Where you are, whatever your condition is; Always try to be a lover. -- Rumi
If you # love love, look for yourself. -- Rumi
If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love. -- Rumi
Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere. -- Rumi
Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening. -- Rumi
Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it. -- Rumi
Actually, your soul and mine are the same. We appear and disappear with each other. -- Rumi
Here in my chest a Star came out so clear it drew all Stars into it. -- Rumi
Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here? -- Rumi
You could string a hundred endless days together,
My soul would find no comfort from this pain.
You laugh at my tale? You may be educated
But you haven't learned to love till you're insane -- Rumi
When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon. -- Rumi
Do not see yourself as a body of clay, see yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty. -- Rumi
Are you searching for your soul?
Then come out of your own prison. -- Rumi
Press thy suit, yet with moderation;
A blade of grass cannot pierce a mountain.
If the sum that illumines the world
Were to dry nigher, the world would be consumed -- Rumi
The universe and the light of the stars come through me. -- Rumi
The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles. -- Rumi
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. -- Rumi
Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips. -- Rumi
Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty. -- Rumi
The day is conscious of itself. -- Rumi
O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease. -- Rumi
If you are here unfaithfully with us, you're causing terrible damage. -- Rumi
Oh lovers, where are you going? Who are you looking for? Your beloved is right here. -- Rumi
Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words. -- Rumi
The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy. -- Rumi
LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity.
Other desires are substitutes
for that way of being. -- Rumi
Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one. -- Rumi
A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles. -- Rumi
Love is the water of life, jump into this water. -- Rumi
The Soul is a stranger trying to find a Home
somewhere that is not a where. -- Rumi
Empathy is even better than talking in one language -- Rumi
On this path let the heart be your guide. -- Rumi
You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly. -- Rumi
Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief. -- Rumi
We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless. -- Rumi
Be concentrated and leonine
in the hunt for what is your true nourishment.
Don't be distracted by blandishment-noises,
of any sort. -- Rumi
Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory. -- Rumi
When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was. -- Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. -- Rumi
Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery. -- Rumi
I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple. -- Rumi
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger. -- Rumi
I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart. -- Rumi
Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there -- Rumi
Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song. -- Rumi
Don't fill your bowl With food from every boiling pot you see. Not every joke is humorous, So don't search for meaning Where there isn't one. -- Rumi
If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything. -- Rumi
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls. -- Rumi
LOVE comes of its own free will,
it can't be learned in any school! -- Rumi
Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know. -- Rumi
My home has no address,
my tracks leave no trace.
I am neither body nor soul ...
What can I say?
I belong to the Self of the Beloved -- Rumi
Your real "country" is where you're heading, not where you are. -- Rumi
Love's secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, "Here I am!" -- Rumi
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden. -- Rumi
Be an empty page, untouched by words. -- Rumi
Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour. Do it now. -- Rumi
A life without LOVE isn't a life. -- Rumi
Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring. -- Rumi
Rub your eyes, and look again at love, with love. -- Rumi
I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak. -- Rumi
Infinite mercy flows continually
But you're asleep and can't see it. -- Rumi
Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl! -- Rumi
I am so close, I may look distant. -- Rumi
We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it. -- Rumi
Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working. -- Rumi
Love is not love that doesn't love the details of the beloved, the minute particulars. -- Rumi
What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly? -- Rumi
There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together -- Rumi
Every moment, the sunlight
is totally empty and totally full. -- Rumi
Love is the religion, and the universe is the book. -- Rumi
Nothing happens by chance no one goes on a quest without a reason without the pull of the magnet there is no action. -- Rumi
I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow. -- Rumi
All my feelings have the color you desire to paint. -- Rumi
Love is the cure,
for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain
until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent. -- Rumi
Look at Love with the eyes of your Heart. -- Rumi
Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. -- Rumi
Love risks everything and asks for nothing. -- Rumi
Your longing for ME is my message to you,
All your attempts to reach ME,
Are in reality MY attempts to reach you. -- Rumi
No one can tell if I'm laughing or weeping.
I wonder myself. -- Rumi
I will conquer the whole world and fill it with myself -- Rumi
If I hold you with my emotions,
you'll become a wished-for companion. -- Rumi
Each and every part of the world is a snare for the fool and a means of deliverance for the wise. -- Rumi
Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen! -- Rumi
Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming -- Rumi
What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are hungry or not. -- Rumi
Enough of words. Come to me without a sound. -- Rumi
Whoever is loved is beautiful, but the opposite is not true, that whoever is beautiful is loved. -- Rumi