Rumi Quotes

Only love itself can explain love and lovers.

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!'

I see my beauty in you.

If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?

There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.

The soul lives there in the silent breath.

Hear from the heart wordless mysteries.

Lots of ways to reach God, I chose love.

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment.

Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

Walk out like someone suddenly born into colour. Do it now.

I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence

There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.

Go to the well of deep Love inside each of Us.

I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

I should be suspicious of what I want.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.

Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open!

The Heart of the matter is Soul, nothing else.

If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.

Wings of Love long only to fly away from all directions.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.

Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.

When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.

I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world.

My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

My religion is to be alive from LOVE.

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

Your kindness cannot be said. You open doors in the sky. You ease the heart and make God's qualities visible.

Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."

My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage

The work of magic is this, that it breathes and at every breath transforms realities.

In the Friend-place nothing true can be said. Let Me Just Be Here.

I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting.

I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me.

The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one.

Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors.

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.

Beauty surrounds us.

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.

Love is nothing other than finding the truth.

There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.

He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.