Rumi Quotes

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.

Listen to the sound of waves within you.

But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!

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

I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.

In the middle of my heart, a star appeared, and the seven heavens were lost in its brilliance.

I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

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!

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming

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.

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.

Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

Oh lovers, where are you going? Who are you looking for? Your beloved is right here.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

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.

Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.

The world is a playground, and death is the night.

Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there

There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.

Open your hands if you want to be held.

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.

Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself.

But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.

Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.

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.

You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion

There is some kiss we want with the whole of our lives.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

You’re a song, a wished-for song.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

There is nothing I want but your Presence. In friendship, time dissolves.

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.

I look into your eyes & see the universe not yet born.

I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.

Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives.

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.

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless. Although I may try to describe love, when I experience it, I am speechless. Although I may try to write about love, I am rendered helpless. My pen breaks, and the paper slips away at the ineffable place where lover loving and loved are one. Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.

Trust means you're ready to risk what you currently have.

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

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.

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.

There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in love.