Rumi Quotes

Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting.

To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.

Look at me as many times as you wish, but you won’t get to know me! Since you have last seen me, I’ve changed a hundred times!

Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.

I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice.

To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart.

We are the Sun with all the different kinds of Light.

You cannot learn about Love, LOVE appears on the wings of grace.

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 worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?

Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you.

I have no fear to burn my mouth and throat I’m ready to drink every flame and more.

Every soul becomes gold when touched by the Beloved.

Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.

God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion !

Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.

Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself.

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.

Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.

I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me. If I Cry About It, Or If I Don’t, The Fire Is At Work, Night And Day.

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.

Each moment contains a hundred messages from God.

If someone asks, But what is Love? Answer, Dissolving the will.

Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know.

Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.

Bathe in the splendor of your own Light.

Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; Love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.

People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.

Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless.

Love cannot be learned or taught. Love comes as Grace.

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.

You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home.

When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.

If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul.

A Breath of love can take you all the way to infinity

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

God put thorns around the Love's door to stop anyone who's not a Lover from entering.

Be silent, Only the Hand of God Can remove The burdens of your heart.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!

Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?

The heart is your student, for love is the only way we learn.

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you.