Rumi Quotes

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

Appear as you are, or be as you appear.

The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.

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.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.

Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.

No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!

From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean.

You show your worth by what you seek.

Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.

No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.

I don’t know why; when I look at you, I see myself

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

All the world Loves You, but You are nowhere to be found, Hidden and yet . . . completely obvious!

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

Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy

It's no good giving my heart and my Soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him

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.

Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people

Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.

There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.

I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.

Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond.

When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for one breath, in that moment you will find your true destiny. Alas, don't spoil this precious moment. Moments like this are very, very rare.

Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one.

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

What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.

You have Within you more love than you could ever understand.

What is the Heart? A flower opening.

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?

The whole universe is contained within a single human being - you.

Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.

The soul is here for its own joy.

We all face death in the end. But on the way, be careful never to hurt a human heart!

If you can't smell the fragrance don't come into the garden of Love. if you are unwilling to undress don't enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are, don't come our way

Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.

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

When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.

The middle path is the way to wisdom

Although the road is never ending take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance... On this path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.

There is an original inside me.