Rumi Quotes

The Heart that is not in love will fail the test.

Beyond ideas, there's a field. Will you meet me there?

You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.

If thou has not seen the devil, look at thine own self.

Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul.

Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.

There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!

The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.

Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.

Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.

Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.

Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?

It sounds insane, I know, but I think that - I'm so lucky because I basically am my own muse.

I've been so lucky that there's been such an intense and positive response to the line. It's one of the craziest things.

I think that for the position that I'm in the strongest thing that I can do is produce pieces that are exactly the thing that I want them to be.

I think that our strength is actually how niche our product is, and not that it's very commercial and very similar to things that are out there already.

It's really cool because it's all exactly my vision. I'm not watering anything down.

I started my blog - never thought that would have an audience, and that turned into such a huge, life-changing career for me. I definitely wanted it, I just didn't fully plan on it, of course.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one

Soul, if you want to learn secrets, 
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover, 
yet you worry what people are saying.

Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?

Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.

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

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.The wound is the place where the Light enters you.Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

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 the silence of loveyou will find the spark of life

I waitwith silent passionfor one gestureone glancefrom you

My wails of sorroware tormenting my soul

You are my wine, my joy, My garden, my springtime, My slumber, my repose, Without you, I can't cope.

If you want money more than anything, you will be bought and sold.If you have a greed for food, you will become a loaf of bread.This is a subtle truth.Whatever you love, you are.

Make it your habit to behold the Light without the glass, so that when the glass is shattered you may not be left blind.

When your heart becomes the grave of your secret, that desire of your will be gained more quickly.

Life's waters flow from darkness. Search the darkness, don't run from it.

You are so weak. Give up to grace.The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.You need more help than you know.

For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.From within, I couldn't decide what to do.Unable to see, I heard my name being called.Then I walked outside.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was.Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.They're in each other all along.

Let go of your mind and then be mindful.Close your ears and listen!

You are the source of the sun.And I am the willow's shadow. Oh, you have struck me on the head, Wretch that I am, on fire am I.

All the tears which we creatures shed for Him are not tears as many think but pearls....

you are a volume in the divine booka mirror to the power that created the universewhatever you want, ask it of yourselfwhatever you're looking for can only be foundinside of you

The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.

When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.

I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

I am yours.Don't give myself back to me.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.You feel it, don't you?

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.