Rumi Quotes

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

What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.

I am yours. Don't give myself back to me.

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

I said, O Love, tell me this: Does the Lord know you are treating me this way? Love said to me, yes He does, just be totally… totally… silent

From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I’m a stone, but through you, I am a gem!

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

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

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

The heart is the secret inside the secret.

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

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

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

You know what love is? It is all kindness, generosity.

The Law of Wonder rules my life at last, ...I burn each second of my life to Love Each second of my life burns out in Love In each leaping second Love lives afresh.

Try something different. Surrender.

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

Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
 your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
 yet you worry what people are saying.

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

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

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

Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead you to the truth. When you ask, the answer will be given.'

Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.

If you look too closely at the form, you miss the Essence.

Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.

No one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was.

If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.

I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.

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.

Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here.

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again.

Patience is the key to joy.

Woman is the light of God.

A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.

The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.

LOVE will lay a carpet of treasures under your feet.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

We are born of love. Love is our mother.

The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit!

If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.

Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.

Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.

A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you.

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.