Rumi Quotes

Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.

This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.

When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope.

I am in Love with Love and Love is in love with me. My body is in Love with the soul and the soul is in Love with my body. I opened my arms to Love and Love embraced me like a lover.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.

You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that.

A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden.

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.

Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow.

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.

Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.

I come to YOU without ME, come to ME without YOU.

A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth.

Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence.

Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen.

The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

This Love has whispered secrets in your ear that don't make sense to anybody else. You know who You are. You are the shining star.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze, but as they sway they connect at the roots.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

There is someone who looks after us from behind the curtain. In truth we are not here, this is our shadow.

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.

You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.

Lamps are different, but light is the same.

Our death is our wedding with eternity.

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.

Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us.

There is a place where words are born of silence.

Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that’s a blessing.

If destiny comes to help you, Love will come to meet you. A life without love isn't a life

Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon's reflection.

Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.

Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are.

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.

The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.

Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby came from a stone.

There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.