Rumi Quotes

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

When LOVE for GOD has been doubled in your HEART, there is no doubt that GOD has love for YOU.

The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world.

The hurt you embrace becomes joy.

Lose your soul in God's Love... I swear there is no other way !

Muhammad says, 'Love of one's country is a part of the faith.' But don't take that literally! Your real 'country' is where you're heading, not where you are. Don't misread that hadith.

What was said to the rose that made it open, was said to me, here in my chest.

Last night I learned how to be a lover of God. To live in this world and call nothing my own.

Nothing can help me but that beauty. There was a dawn I remember when my soul heard something from your soul. I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me.

Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not of the East, nor of the West.... My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.

No more words. Hear only the voice within.

Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is.

From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.

My soul is my guide, for my soul is of that abode. I will not speak of the earthly. I am of the unknown

I am sunlight slicing the dark.

I was there in the beginning and I was the spirit of love.

If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.

Love is the way messengers from the mystery tell us things

Shine like the whole universe is yours.

I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one.

Humble yourself, you’ll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you.

Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe.

I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.

Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.

God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.

Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.

Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic

I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.

If you put your heart against the earth with me In serving every creature, our Beloved will enter you From our sacred realm, and we will be, we will be So happy.

In the middle of my heart, a star appeared, and the seven heavens were lost in its brilliance.

We must die to become true human beings.

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all.

There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

You are the soul of the soul of the universe, and your name is Love.

There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.

In truth, everything and everyone is a shadow of the Beloved.

Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER.

Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.

When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon.

Be drunk with LOVE, for Love is all that exists.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says" your beauty lights up everything around you.

Half-heartedne ss doesn't reach into majesty.

The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.

In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.

The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

You're not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.