Rumi Quotes

Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.

There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.

Lamps are different, but light is the same.

For me to praise is interrupting praise.

Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.

The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.

Seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

I came to this earth so that I could find my way back to my Beloved.

Such a strong thing LOVE, changes everything.

This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.

Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that’s a blessing.

Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one.

I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

There's no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself.

Go to the well of deep Love inside each of Us.

Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.

Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.

Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is.

Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state.

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.

No one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was.

Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.

My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.

Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.

What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul?

Whatever purifies you is the correct road.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.

In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.

Speak with the language of love.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!

A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.

I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.

I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.

We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.

Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it.

If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself.

Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?

Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?

Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace.