Rumi Quotes

Open your Eyes, for this World is only a Dream.

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.

If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.

I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.

Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.

When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.

Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.

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.

Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in the sunset like supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep on. This Love is beyond the study of theology, that old trickery and hypocrisy. If you want to improve your mind that way, sleep on. I've given up on my brain. I've torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away. If you're not completely naked, wrap your beautiful robe of words around you, and sleep on

We must die to become true human beings.

Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.

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 !

Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.

Let the Beloved be a hat pulled down firmly on my head.

Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.

Very high, very grand, and very wise is the ocean of God, the Water of Life. You went after the form and were lead astray. How can you see it? You abandoned the truth. Sometimes it is named "tree," sometimes "sun," sometimes "ocean," sometimes "cloud," one thing from which scores of discoveries arise, its slightest definition an everlasting life.

From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

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.

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.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

My souls sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this?

Every prophet and every saint has a way, But all lead to God. All ways are really one.

He alone has the right to break, for He alone has the power to mend.

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all.

I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

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.

Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.

Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

Let yourself become living poetry.

I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.

I will conquer the whole world and fill it with myself

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.

You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. 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.

Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open!

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

Work on your stony qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.

The quieter we become, the more we can hear.

Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.

Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.