Rumi Quotes
Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)
You collide with destiny caught up in the mystery of walking the halls of a mind that's only inclined to recognize & expect victory.
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute
Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying.
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
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.
Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty.
Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets.The moon sets.But they are not gone.~Rumi
...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.
Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.
I keepholding upthe mirror of the sun, so you can see the stunningreflections of everythingyou’re becom-ing.
Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.
The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.
Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.
Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
You broughtme your darkness& I loved youwith the radianttears of athousand suns.
Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!Forget your life, live!Forget yourself and be!
You know how it goes:at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God.Then you abandoned life and loverand started celebratingyour love for God.
You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see your treasure glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes.
Only a handful of individuals in human history can be truly hailed as Christians, such as Tolstoy, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rumi, Martin Luther King Jr. and a few others.