Rumi Quotes

I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.

Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work.

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.

Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.

The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.

Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words.

You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.

Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.

If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.

Lo, I am with you always means when you look for God, God is in the look of your eyes, in the thought of looking, nearer to you than your self, or things that have happened to you. There's no need to go outside.

Except for Love, nothing you see will remain forever.

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby came from a stone.

Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.

Love is such a vast sea, it has neither edges nor ends nor corners.

O Beloved, where is the Beloved?

Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.

Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.

I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn't find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was.

Inside a Lover's Heart,there's another world,and yet another.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; to regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, to see beyond seeing itself, to reach and feel within the breast.

What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.

I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love. Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars. You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love. Even so, you have always been connected to me. Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest. I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.

Know that the mirror of the heart is boundless. . . Here, opinions become silent, otherwise they will lead you into errors. . . for the heart is sacred - even more the heart is sacredness itself.

I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.

Dance when you're perfectly free.

A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.

Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets.

When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.

I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.

Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.

Wake up Lovers, It is time to start the Journey! Let us kiss the ground & flow like a river towards the Ocean. Only love can lead the way.

If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.

I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover

...one cannot lodge in if.