Rumi Quotes
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The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.
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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
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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.
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Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
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And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
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Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
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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.
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As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.
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There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.
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If i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow
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Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.
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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.
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Nothing, indeed, is more symptomatic of our modern lack of logic than our consciousness of the futility of mere material affluence in itself, and at the same time our pathetic belief that the salvation of the “poor” is to lift them into affluence!
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Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.
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Go find yourself first so you can also find me.
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Don’t hand me another glass of wine. Pour it in my mouth. I’ve lost the way to my mouth.
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You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !
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The cure for the pain is in the pain.
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I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence.
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We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice
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You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.
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All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.
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Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.