Rumi Quotes

From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

You had better run from me. My words are fire.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the Light.

Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky.

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing or two about whirling.

There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

The world is a playground, and death is the night.

Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.

For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.

Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.

We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God.

Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange.

New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.

Love is the water of life, jump into this water.

If you see Two in One - I only see One in Two

Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.

Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?

Disharmony prevails when you confuse Lust with LOVE, while the distance between the two is endless!

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

Whatever you know, or don’t - only Love is real.

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

Love is the house of God and you are living in that house.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul

Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

Give your weakness to one who helps.

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

Whoever is loved is beautiful, but the opposite is not true, that whoever is beautiful is loved.

The thirsty look for water, but water also looks for thirsty.

Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.

The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece.

True beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul.

I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow.

I am in Love with Love and Love is in love with me.

Hold on to the reins of Love and don’t be afraid. Hold on to the real behind the false and don’t be afraid.

The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.

Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.

Get yourself out of the way, and let Joy have more space.