Rumi Quotes

Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.

Once you have met a true human being, Let him not disappear from the horizon of your HEART.

Love alone can explain the mysteries of Love.

No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light.

Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.

Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.

Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the jug; go, seek the water!

Your earthly lover can be charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousand doors.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

Don't look for me in a human shape, I am inside your looking.

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

Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.

I am so close, I may look distant.

Every need brings what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, And the marvelous answer appears.

Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.

I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing

Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes.

The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.

Know that the mirror of the heart is boundless. . . Here, opinions become silent, otherwise they will lead you into errors. . . for the heart is sacred - even more the heart is sacredness itself.

When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.

Come on sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me

The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked

You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion

Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.

Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest!

There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.

Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!

World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.

Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.

With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.

Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything.

Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.

I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'

Submit to love without thinking, as the sun rose this morning recklessly extinguishing our star-candle minds.

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

Go my friend bestow your love even on your enemies if you touch their hearts what do you think will happen.

Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.

Raise your words, not your voice.

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.