Rumi Quotes

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.

Live life as if its rigged in your favor.

To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange.

There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you . . .

Make everything in you an ear, each atom of your being, and you will hear at every moment what the Source is whispering to you...you are -we all are-the beloved of the beloved, and in every moment, in every event of your life , the Beloved is whispering to you exactly what you need to hear and know. Who can ever explain this miracle? It simply is.

Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God.

When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you’re expansive, no matter what the weather, you’re in an open, windy field with friends.

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.

Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.

Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.

If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.

A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you.

Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.

Let the beauty we love do what we do.

Whoever is loved is beautiful, but the opposite is not true, that whoever is beautiful is loved.

If you put your soul against the oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside of your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives within us.

Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth.

The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!

There is a window from one heart to another heart.

You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'

The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being strong. The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are. It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves. It leaves the leaves alone.

In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are.

When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.

The final flight make your last journey from this strange world soar for the heights where there is no more God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love and being a Lover. The way of our prophets is the way of Truth. If you want to live, die in Love; die in Love if you want to remain alive.

To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment.

Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.

Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.

When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men.

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.

If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.

Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.

There is an original inside me.