Rumi Quotes

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You

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.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.. Rumi

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't

When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.. Rumi

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.. Rumi

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that

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

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.. Rumi

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn,

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces.

The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Woman is the light of God.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.. Rumi

Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and

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 comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!.

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!

I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and your water

I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.

I am yours.
Don't give myself back to me.

To live without you
is to be robbed of love
and what is life without it?
To live without you
is death to me, my love
but some call it life.

Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?

You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do, and that
sight becomes this art.

You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don't.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.

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?

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?

Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.

Give your weakness to one who helps.

You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this world of dust and matter.
Out of this dust
you have created a personal image,
and have forgotten
about the essence of your true origin

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

You're water. We're the millstone.
You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.
You're spirit. We're the opening and closing
of our hands. You're the clarity.
We're the language that tries to say it.
You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

Don't try to steer the boat.
Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent.
You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear,
And if you do speak, ask for explanations.

You have forgotten the One
who doesn't care about ownership,
who doesn't try to turn a profit
from every human exchange.

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;
For I am like the Moon,
you will see me with new face everyday.

You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread.
If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul.
If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.

Bitter your acts, bitter am I,
Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,
Pleasant and gentle, so you are,
Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

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 agony
of parting, never mentioning the skill
that gave it life as a flute

Knowledge that is acquired
is not like this. Those who have it worry if
audiences like it or not.
It's a bait for popularity.
Disputational knowing wants customers.
It has no soul...
The only real customer is God.
Chew quietly
your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay
playfully childish.

Do not seek water, get thirst.

I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as a plant and rose to animal,
I died as an animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.

The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

If you are seeking, seek us with joy
For we live in the kingdom of joy.
Do not give your heart to anything else
But to the love of those who are clear joy,
Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.
For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –
Do not go in the direction of darkness –
I tell you: suns exist.

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don't go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep!
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
The door is round and open
Don't go back to sleep!

Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight is blind
and try to see a treasure in everyone.

Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions
with beauty.

I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

My friend, you thought you lost Him;
that all your life you've been separated from Him.
Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him,
and haven't searched within your own house.

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

And watch two men washing clothes,
one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony.

Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.

A wealth you cannot imagine
flows through you.
Do not consider what strangers say.
Be secluded in your secret heart-house,
that bowl of silence.

There's a path from me to you
I'm constantly looking for,
so I try to keep clear and still
as water does with the moon.

Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

در غم ما روزها بی گاه شد
روزها با سوزها همراه شد

jangan tanya apa agamaku. aku bukan yahudi. bukan
zoroaster. bukan pula islam. karena aku tahu, begitu suatu nama
kusebut, kau akan memberikan arti yang lain daripada makna yang hidup
di hatiku.

Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a desert plain. For us, there is a passion in the midst of that expanse. The knower who reaches there will prostrate, there is neither Islam nor unbelief, nor any 'where' in that place.

When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

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

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.

In the sea of love, I melt like salt, Faith, Doubt - they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart, The worlds turn in it.

Let your soul turn into a mirror
that passionately wants to reflect Joseph.
Hand him your present.
Now let silence speak.
As that begins, we will start out.

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

Beauty surrounds us.

If Light Is In Your Heart
You Will Find Your Way Home.

I love my friends
neither with my heart nor with my mind.

Just in case…
Heart might stop.
Mind can forget.
I love them with my soul.
Soul never stops or forgets.

My Beloved

Know that my beloved in hidden from everyone
Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs
Know that in my heart she is as clear as the moon
Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul

My wails of sorrow
are tormenting my soul

In the silence of love
you will find the spark of life

I wait
with silent passion
for one gesture
one glance
from you

You erased my famine, unpicked my anger
Your energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;
Now I am alive with the ore of words pouring
From my lips like molten lava glittering with joy.

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.

I went inside my heart
to see how it was.
Something there makes me hear
the whole world weeping.

I came with many knots in my heart,
like the magician's rope.

You undid them all at once.
I see now the splendor of the student
and that of the teacher's art.

Love and this body sit inside your presence,
one demolished, the other drunk.

We smile. We weep, tree limbs
turning sere, then light green.

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.

Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.
Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom

Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.

From "Blasphemy and the Core"

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to.
Don't try to see through the distances.
That's not for human beings. Move within,
but don't move the way fear makes you move.

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.

People who repress desires
often turn, suddenly,
into hypocrites.

There is nothing I want but your presence.
In friendship, time dissolves.

Life is a cup. This connection
is pure wine. What else are cups for?

I used to have twenty thousand
different desires.

the more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is incomplete unless one includes the central theme of love.

When soul rises
Into lips
You feel the kiss
You have wanted

Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!

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

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

You are my wine, my joy,
My garden, my springtime,
My slumber, my repose,
Without you, I can't cope.

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