Rumi Quotes

Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless.

If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

Apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.

My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way.

In real existence there is only unity.

Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain.

Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.

Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.

Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky.

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

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love.

When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.

From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I’m a stone, but through you, I am a gem!

To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart.

Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.

Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.

A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower.

An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: For loving a true love. Feet: To chase after. Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind, for learning what men have done and tried to do. Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why. A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.

Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.

A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.

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.

Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.

if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did.

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.

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?

This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.

Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.

Inside any deep asking is the answering.

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.

Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.

Iron was black and sheenless, but cleansing and polishing washed away its blackness.

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

Be silent, Only the Hand of God Can remove The burdens of your heart.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another

I am yours. Don't give myself back to me.

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. 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 - "Hidden Music

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.