Rumi Quotes

The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute

You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?

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?

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

Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns.

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art.

A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you.Do not consider what strangers say.Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.

Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

Last night you left me and sleptyour own deep sleep. Tonight you turnand turn. I say, ‘You and I will be togethertill the universe dissolves.’You mumble back things you thought ofwhen you were drunk.

My heart is so smallit's almost invisible.How can You place such big sorrows in it?"Look, " He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

When soul risesInto lipsYou feel the kiss You have wanted

My Soul is my Guide, for my Soul is of that Abode I will not Speak of the Earthly, I am of the Unknown.

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

Doost", Ahmed voiced. "Doost", he repeated softly, shutting his eyes.The word felt like a caress."what does it mean?"'It means "The Friend", "The One I Love", "the One I Long For".

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

Don't turn your head. Keep looking at the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

If Light Is In Your HeartYou Will Find Your Way Home.

I love my friendsneither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case…Heart might stop. Mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets.

Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

Half of life is lost in charming others.The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.Leave this play. You have played enough.

You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another.

The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.

Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.”“In prayer all are equal.

It's your road, and yours alone.others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.

By the day, I praised you and never knew it, by night, I stayed with you and never knew it. I always thought I was me but no, I was you and never knew it.

Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

...purification was the point of such pain.

If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom

The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love.

The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.

...anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished??

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface, yet I'm already underand living within the ocean.

Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.

There is nothing I want but your presence.In friendship, time dissolves.Life is a cup. This connectionis pure wine. What else are cups for?I used to have twenty thousanddifferent desires.

Agent Smith, a lady is never late, everyone is simply early.” I said back, paraphrasing something I saw on a 20/20 special. “Well, a lady isn’t exactly what they are expecting.

The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings.

Imitating others, I failed to find myself. I looked inside and discovered I only knew my name. When I stepped outside I found my real Self. ~Rumi