Rumi Quotes

For me to praise is interrupting praise.

I have no name for what circles so perfectly.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!

I am your own voice echoing off the walls of God

If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.

Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky.

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with it we probe the divine.

Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that.

My souls sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this?

You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself

They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.

If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.

Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here?

For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

To Love is to be God. Never will a Lover's chest feel any sorrow. Never will a Lover's robe be touched by mortals. Never will a Lover's body be found buried in the earth. To Love is to be God.

Let the beauty we love do what we do.

I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference

Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!

What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool.

Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?

We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?

The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache.

This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.

This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

Oh lovers, where are you going? Who are you looking for? Your beloved is right here.

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken.

We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.

Each and every part of the world is a snare for the fool and a means of deliverance for the wise.

Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.

For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.

Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.

In the beginning I just was dreaming about working in fashion at all, no matter what the role would be, and it just seemed so unlikely. I was living in San Diego and it seemed so far away.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear.

Listen . Keep silent . You are not gods mouthpiece. Try to be an ear.

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.

How can you ever hope to know the Beloved Without becoming in every cell the Lover?

Don't stray from your Heart's intent.

The Beloved is with you in the midst of your seeking! He holds your hand wherever you wander.

My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.

Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.

O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.

I should sell my tongue and buy a thousand ears when that One steps near and begins to speak.

Love's creed is separate from all religions.