Rumi Quotes

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.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

Trust means you're ready to risk what you currently have.

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.

Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.

Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.

Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.

Swim out of your little pond.

A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man.

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.

Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.

Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.

Only the soul knows what love is.

Love is such a vast sea, it has neither edges nor ends nor corners.

Open your Eyes, for this World is only a Dream.

You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you

Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself.

Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow.

Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself.

Don't look for Love, look for the one looking for Love.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

In this earth, in this immaculate field, we shall not plant any seeds except for compassion, except for love.

Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.

The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.

This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.

On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.

A strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere?

I lost everything i have, found myself.

If Your Eyes Are Opened, You'll See The Things Worth Seeing.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.

He has afflicted you from every direction in order to pull you back to the directionless.

In the silence of LOVE you will find the Spark of LIFE.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining.

Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul . . .

Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.

There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together.

Every step I take is a blessing.

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.

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.

In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.

A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.

Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.

Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.

Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal.

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.