Rumi Quotes

People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.

Looking at my life I see that only Love Has been my soul’s companion From deep inside My soul cries out: Do not wait, surrender For the sake of Love.

Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings

Your body is woven from the Light of Heaven.

people want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain

Give yourself a kiss. If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself.

I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.

Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.

‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.

Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.

...one cannot lodge in if.

The moon has become a dancer at this festival of LOVE.

if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow

There's courage involved if you want to become Truth.

You are as you are, an indescribable message on the air.

For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.

Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

Actually, your soul and mine are the same. We appear and disappear with each other.

Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!

Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.

The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer!

Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.

And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.

I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.

Learn to speak by listening.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.

The body is not hidden from the soul, nor is the soul hidden from the body, and yet the soul is not for everyone to see.

When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.

Love cannot be described. It must be tasted.

let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.

In your light I learn how to love.

I can heal a broken heart with a smile.

Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.

This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.

Why are you knocking at every door ? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.

Whoever acts with respect will get respect.

Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed.