Rumi Quotes

You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Life s picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

There is nothing outside of yourself, look within. Everything you want is there. You are That.

If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.

Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.

There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded by pride that he himself has conceived good ideas or done good deeds. If everything were as it seemed, the Prophet would not have cried out with such illuminated and illuminating perspicacity, Show me things as they are! You make things appear beautiful when in reality they are ugly; You make things appear ugly when in reality they are beautiful. Show us therefore each thing as it is lest we fall into a snare and be ever errant.

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

Turning toward what you deeply love saves you

Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . .

Beyond ideas, there's a field. Will you meet me there?

Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow.

Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed.

It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

You cannot learn about Love, LOVE appears on the wings of grace.

If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.

If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.

On this path let the heart be your guide.

Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.

That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.

People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.

Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.

Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.

Don't stray from your Heart's intent.

Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love

Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

There is a sun within every person.

To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depths of the stars. Our camel driver is at work; the caravan is being readied. He asks that we forgive him for the disturbance he has caused us, He asks why we travellers are asleep. Everywhere the murmur of departure; the stars, like candles thrust at us from behind blue veils, and as if to make the invisible plain, a wondrous people have come forth.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

Lovers don't meet in the end, they are in each other forever.

Oh Soul! You worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.

Half-heartedne ss doesn't reach into majesty.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.

Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.

I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.