Rumi Quotes

There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.

You believe God is not there, but He is, Hidden in the secret of the divine mystery

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.

What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool.

The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I.

My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.

The soul lives there in the silent breath.

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things.

You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside

Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up as if you just heard something brilliant.

You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that.

He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun

My beloved grows right out of my own heart. How much more union can there be.

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.

No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.

I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.

The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than the stars with more clarity than the polished mirror of your heart.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman steals from others every day--is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.

Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."

Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.

Whatever you know, or don’t - only Love is real.

The middle path is the way to wisdom

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.

Those who practice Love have neither Religion or Status.

The soul is here for its own joy.

Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving.

There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved. And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?' The lover replied, 'It is I.' 'Go hence,' returned the voice; 'there is no room within for thee and me.' Then came the lover a second time and knocked and again the voice demanded, 'Who is there?' He answered, 'It is thou.' 'Enter,' said the voice, 'for I am within.

I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one.

Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your Heart from the darkness of hate

The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did about the future. Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that.

I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul… Love says, “You are right, but don’t claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.

Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships.

I found the Divine within my Heart.

If Your Eyes Are Opened, You'll See The Things Worth Seeing.

Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin... Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.

There is a place where words are born of silence.