Rumi Quotes

The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.” The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.” The water replied, “How will your shame be washed away without me?

Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.

In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life. I know that I can clear them if I wanted to in a moment. But all this hollowness Needs my Sincerity.

It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him.

Look at Love with the eyes of your Heart.

A life without LOVE isn’t a life.

I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars.

O my choice beauty You've gone But your love remains in my heart Your image in my eye O guide on my winding road I keep turning round and round in the hopes of Finding you

Criticism polishes my mirror.

Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.

If only you knew what bliss I find in being nothing.

I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.

With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?

You must ask for what you really want.

Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.

The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.

The water has a Water that is driving it; The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it.

Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.

Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there

The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.

The glance of Love is crystal clear.

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.

I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.

Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines.

Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.

Rub your eyes, and look again at love, with love.

I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

Love calls - everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming?

Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.

Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.

Oh Soul! You worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.

In the garden I see only your face From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance.

This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.

You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.

Nothing can nourish the SOUL but LIGHT.

Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, You'll never know the blessings that God gives.

But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.

A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.

Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.

I was you and never knew it.

Everyone turns toward someone. Look for one scarred by the King's polo stick.

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

What you're seeking is seeking you.