Rumi Quotes

Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.

How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.

Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.

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.

Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.

We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We started sober: are love's startled drunkards. You hide me in your cloak of nothingness Reflect my ghost in your glass of being I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream Where your eternity briefly trembles.

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.

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?

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.

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

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.

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.

What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are hungry or not.

When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted

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.

Love has come to rule and transform; Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.

I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world.

IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance.

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?

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.

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.

Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?

You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.

The heart is your student, for love is the only way we learn.

You are the soul of the soul of the universe, and your name is Love.

Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
 your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
 yet you worry what people are saying.

Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

In Silence there is eloquence.

Beauty surrounds us.

When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

We are all bathed in the same light.

It is Love that gives joy to happiness.

Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one.

You show your worth by what you seek.

Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come.

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

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.

Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.

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.

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.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!