Rumi Quotes
The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall to earth and grow green all over the world.
There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.
Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.
Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.
There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.
Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.
You are more valuable than both heaven and earth. What else can I say? You don’t know your own worth.
Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.
Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?
There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it.
Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.
The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.. The light which fills the heart is the light of God, which is pure and separate from the light of intellect and sense.
If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road.
In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.
Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.
Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.
Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.
