Rumi Quotes

You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern.

The quieter we become, the more we can hear.

The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!

When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.

I always thought that I was me — but no, I was you and never knew it.

Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.

Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

There is nothing outside of yourself, look within. Everything you want is there. You are That.

Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.

Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.

Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and the leaf.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.

Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

My sight My heart My Life All three words I have woven into one ... Love.

I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.

Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.

Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming

Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

The Inspiration You Seek Is Already Within You. Be Silent And Listen.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

On this path let the heart be your guide.

If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

There is a window from one heart to another heart.

Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.

What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.