Rumi Quotes

There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? You feel the separation from the Beloved. Invite Him to fill you up, embrace the fire.

Be suspicious of what you want.

I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.

‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.

Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.

Swim out of your little pond.

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

Everything has to do with loving and not loving.

If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.

And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here.

Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!

There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

If thou has not seen the devil, look at thine own self.

All we really want is love's confusing joy.

If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul.

The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!

We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine.

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.

Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.

If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.

O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.

Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.

This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.

Come on sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me

God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

There is no way into Presence except through a love exchange.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!

Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints?

You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

Revile those who flatter you.

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.

There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in Love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds. This was ordained in creation. Only from the heart can you reach the sky: The Rose of Glory can grow only from the heart.

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.

The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.