Rumi Quotes

New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.

In the Friend-place nothing true can be said. Let Me Just Be Here.

THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor, or a fire we can’t see, but how does saying that push us through the top of the head into the light above the head? Love is not an iron pot, so this boiling energy won’t help. Soul, heart, self. Beyond and within those is one saying, How long before I’m free of this torture!

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.

Be drunk with LOVE, for Love is all that exists.

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.

Lovers move like lightning and wind. No contest. Theologians mumble, rumble-dumble, necessity and free will, while lover and beloved pull themselves into each other.

You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely.

Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.

Why should I be unhappy? Each parcel of my being is in full bloom.

Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.

Enough of words. Come to me without a sound.

Patience is the key to joy.

The radiant one in me has never said a word.

Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!

In your beauty, how to make poems.

Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If you want a clear mirror, behold yourself and see the shameless truth, which the mirror reflects. If metal can be polished to a mirror-like finish, what polishing might the mirror of the heart require? Between the mirror and the heart is this single difference: the heart conceals secrets, while the mirror does not.

My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.

Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold.

Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle

There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

Dance from here to the other world-and don't stop.

People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.

Where you are, whatever your condition is; Always try to be a lover.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life.

You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?

A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle.

My soul is my guide, for my soul is of that abode. I will not speak of the earthly. I am of the unknown

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

The body is not hidden from the soul, nor is the soul hidden from the body, and yet the soul is not for everyone to see.

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

This dance is the joy of existence.

Love is the house of God and you are living in that house.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.

Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.

Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.

For those who realize that everything is from God, everything is the same.

Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring.

There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.