Jalaluddin Rumi, مثنوی معنوی Quotes

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone.

Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns.

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art.

A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you.Do not consider what strangers say.Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.

Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

Last night you left me and sleptyour own deep sleep. Tonight you turnand turn. I say, ‘You and I will be togethertill the universe dissolves.’You mumble back things you thought ofwhen you were drunk.

My heart is so smallit's almost invisible.How can You place such big sorrows in it?"Look, " He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

When soul risesInto lipsYou feel the kiss You have wanted

My Soul is my Guide, for my Soul is of that Abode I will not Speak of the Earthly, I am of the Unknown.

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

Don't turn your head. Keep looking at the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

If Light Is In Your HeartYou Will Find Your Way Home.

I love my friendsneither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case…Heart might stop. Mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets.

Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another.

The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.”“In prayer all are equal.

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

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

By the day, I praised you and never knew it, by night, I stayed with you and never knew it. I always thought I was me but no, I was you and never knew it.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom

The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished??

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface, yet I'm already underand living within the ocean.

Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.

There is nothing I want but your presence.In friendship, time dissolves.Life is a cup. This connectionis pure wine. What else are cups for?I used to have twenty thousanddifferent desires.

The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings.

Go find yourself first so you can also find me.

You whispered softly in the ear of my joyous heart.You know what's on my mind, you've heard my thoughts.I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

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

Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.

Every story is us

There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.

The flower that does not smileat the branches withers.

Come to the orchard in Spring.There is light and wine, and sweetheartsin the pomegranate flowers.If you do not come, these do not matter.If you do come, these do not matter.

If I could repeat it, people passing by would be enlightened and go free.

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains, drinking poison, and now quietly choosing annihilation.

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.

If the beloved is everywhere, the lover is a veil, but when living itself becomesthe Friend, lovers disappear.

You were sent to unite peopleYou were not been sent to divide people.

You were sent to unite peopleYou were not sent to divide people.

You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain.You laugh at my tale? You may be educatedBut you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Die! Die! Die in this love!If you die in this love, Your soul will be renewed. Die! Die! Don’t fear the death of that which is knownIf you die to the temporal, You will become timeless.

My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk Iwas.