Rumi Quotes

Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans.

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo, its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompases every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.

Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but you let fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved, take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything that takes me from you.

I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and your water too I have come all this way, eager for you Without shoes or shawl I want you to laugh To kill all your worries To love you To nourish you.

When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.

Appear as you are, or be as you appear.

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.

The rule that covers everything is: how you are with others, expect that back.

Empathy is even better than talking in one language

This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say.

In the silence of LOVE you will find the Spark of LIFE.

Don't look for Love, look for the one looking for Love.

I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty.

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.

Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

Love is the water of life, jump into this water.

Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care!

There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.

The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.

Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.

Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.

Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth. When you ask, the answer will be given.'

Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.

A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice.

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.

The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.

I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.

You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

You are the drop,and the ocean you are kindness,you are anger, you are sweetness,you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened. you are the chamber of the sun, you are the abode of venus, you are the garden of all hope. Oh, Beloved, let me enter.

The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it.

Raise your words, not your voice.

What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.

However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.

The world is a mirror, an imaging of Love's perfection.

There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.

Our death is our wedding with eternity.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.