Rumi Quotes

Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning.

Let your Teacher be Love itself.

There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!

This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say.

I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.

Live in the nowhere that you come from even though you have got an address Here.

One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear.

Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.

What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?

Everything is soul and flowering.

You are the mirror of divine beauty.

Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes.

That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.

Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.

The unseen presence keeps saying to us, ‘You are Joy!’

You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.

A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain.

If you put your soul against the oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside of your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives within us.

Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.

Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

Why set your heart on a piece ofearth,seek out the source which shines forever.

Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me your inspiration So that I might see mine.

In Silence there is eloquence.

Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.

I don’t regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion.

Deep in the HEART every mystery of spirit is hidden.

When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.

Love has come to rule and transform; Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.

Don't be fooled by my beauty - the light of my face comes from the candle of my spirit.

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.

I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover

But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.

Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there.

When love itself comes to kiss you, don't hold back!

It is Love that holds everything together, and it is the everything also.

When you stop admiring yourself and let the eyes of the heart open your vision to vast other worlds then all you do, will become admirable

Don't regret what's happened. If it's in the past, LET IT GO. Don't even remember it!

God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl