Rumi Quotes

You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.

The images we create could turn into wild beasts and tear us to pieces.

Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.

How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump.

As for us, He has appointed the job of permanent unemployment. If he wanted us to work, after all, He would not have created this wine. With a skinfull of this, Sir, would you rush out to commit economics?

If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.

Whoever acts with respect will get respect.

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.

The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do.

They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.

Those who are pure in heart achieve God-consciousness; they are truly and actually aware of God at the center of their being (their heart). These sanctified individuals are said to be Possessors of the Heart.

A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.

You must ask for what you really want.

When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.

Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.

She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.

Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.

From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try to put out a fire by throwing on more fire. Do not wash a wound with blood. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes it's in front. Only full, overhead sun diminishes your shadow. But that shadow has been serving you. What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

I should be suspicious of what I want.

Each and every part of the world is a snare for the fool and a means of deliverance for the wise.

You had better run from me. My words are fire.

How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.

Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.

What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.

Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.

You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean

If you don't find true balance, anyone can deceive you.

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

I am your own voice echoing off the walls of God

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.

I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.

I come to YOU without ME, come to ME without YOU.

Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.