Rumi Quotes

Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear!

Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.

People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

All we really want is love's confusing joy.

And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.

Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door. She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side. Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.

There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.

A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.

The lovers of God have no religion but God alone.

A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it.

All because of love when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal

I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence.

Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.

You are the Soul and the medicine for what wounds the Soul.

Walk patiently through this troubled world, and you will find great treasure. Even though your house may be small, look within it!

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

The images we create could turn into wild beasts and tear us to pieces.

...Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.

When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted

Yesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one

My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.

There are no edges to my loving now.

I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still!

Whatever purifies you is the correct road.

Let lovers be crazy, disgraceful and wild Those who fret about such things Aren’t in love.

We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.

The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke won't find the Secret.

In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.

Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.

This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.

O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.

The radiant one in me has never said a word.

Listen to presences inside poems, Let them take you where they will. Follow those private hints, and never leave the premises.

There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it.

Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today.

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.

Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.

God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.

If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide.

If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.

I look into your eyes & see the universe not yet born.

Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“ so your life will stay fresh.

I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain.