Rumi Quotes

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.

The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful.

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing.

Love is the sea where intellect drowns.

A strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere?

For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.

There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!

Lovely days don’t come to you, you should walk to them.

Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.

I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things.

That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.

Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.

What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.

Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.

The love religion is all that is written here.

The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.

Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him

The source of now is here.

A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man.

If only you knew what bliss I find in being nothing.

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.

Do not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. "I come and go as I please," you say, "swift as a heartbeat." You can tease me as much as you like but never leave me.

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green daylight. There are ways of being born twice,of coming to where you fly,not individually like birds, but as the sun moves with his bride,sincerity.

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?