Rumi Quotes

Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.

Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be doing as much for this universe as anyone.

Carry your baggage towards silence , when you seek the signs of the way.

Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.

Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.

To find the Beloved, you must become the Beloved.

Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish.

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.

The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

Why set your heart on a piece ofearth,seek out the source which shines forever.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the Light.

You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

We are born of love. Love is our mother.

If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

Don't you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.

Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!

Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.

Muhammad says, 'Love of one's country is a part of the faith.' But don't take that literally! Your real 'country' is where you're heading, not where you are. Don't misread that hadith.

When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge.

I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing

Love Is the Treasure The temple of love is not love itself; True love is the treasure, Not the walls about it. Do not admire the decoration, But involve yourself in the essence, The perfume that invades and touches you- The beginning and the end. Discovered, this replaces all else, The apparent and the unknowable. Time and space are slaves to this presence.

And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.

Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul.

What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being.

Remember God so much that you are forgotten.

Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

He who tastes not, knows not.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

Now is the time to unite the Soul and the world.

Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.

Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.

The lovers of God have no religion but God alone.

The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

Passion is present when a man can distinguish between the wine and the container. Two men see a loaf of bread. One hasn't eaten anything for ten days. The other has eaten five times a day, every day. He sees the shape of the loaf. The other man with his urgent need sees inside into the taste, and into the nourishment the bread could give. Be that hungry, to see within all beings the Friend.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

The day is conscious of itself.

In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances

Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.

Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale.

I belong to the beloved. Have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know. ...First, Last, Outer, Inner, only that breath breathing. HUMAN BEING.