Rumi Quotes

The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.

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

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.

There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?

The Real Beloved is that one who is Unique, who is your Beginning and your End.

When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge.

Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.

Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home. While you look for trinkets The treasure house awaits you in your own being.

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 have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted.

My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit.

Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.

Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder.

I merged so completely with love, and was so fused, that I became Love and Love became me.

Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your Heart from the darkness of hate

There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way.

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.

Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.

God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

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.

I came to this earth so that I could find my way back to my Beloved.

Remember God so much that you are forgotten.

Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.

Love is fearless in the midst of the sea of fear.

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.

The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let the donkey run loose in the pasture.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

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

If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.

Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.

Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Love is a river. Drink from it.

Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another . . . It's all praise, and it's all right.

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.

She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.

Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

The heart is the secret inside the secret.

When I say the word You, I mean a hundred universes.

On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.

Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.

We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty.

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