Rumi Quotes
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.
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.
A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.
There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light from another source.
I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.
My heart is so small it'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.
Are you searching for the river of your soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the ocean.
Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.
Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.
Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!
Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.
You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent, it will be as if you have done nothing.
They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?
Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.
You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.
Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.
When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.
I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.
Love is cure, Love is power, Love is the magic of changes. Love is the mirror, of divine beauty!
For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back.
Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.