Rumi Quotes

Try something different. Surrender.

If you only say one prayer in a day make it Thank You.

If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.

Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself.

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 vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.

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.

people want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

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.

Wings of Love long only to fly away from all directions.

Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Because of your love I have broken with my past

There are no edges to my loving now.

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.

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.

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.

There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!

You live in my heart where no one sees you but I do. That vision becomes this art.

How far is the light of the moon from the moon? How far is the taste of candy from the lip?

The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing 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.

This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.

Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.

Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines.

This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

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.

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.

Look for the answer inside your question.

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.

Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight, a lonely hiddenness. Other pleasure gathers a crowd, starts a fight, lots of noise there. But soul beauty stays quiet..his amazing whereabouts unknown inside my heart.

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.

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.

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.

Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant.

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

A man or a woman is said to be absorbed when the water has total control of him, and he no control of the water. A swimmer moves around willfully. An absorbed being has no will but the water's going. Any word or act is not really personal, but the way the water has of speaking or doing. As when you hear a voice coming out of a wall, and you know that it's not the wall talking, but someone inside, or perhaps someone outside echoing off the wall. Saints are like that. They've achieved the condition of a wall, or a door.

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.

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.

Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.

The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.