Rumi Quotes
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Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.
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Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land of absence Be silent Don’t say a thing Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there
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At a distance you only see my light... Come closer and Know that I am You
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
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You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.
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I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.
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I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.
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Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you, in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you, in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.
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Into this new love, die your way begins on the other side become the sky take an axe to the prison wall, escape walk out like someone suddenly born into color do it now.
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I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
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Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
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Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
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I have put the ear of my soul in the widow of your heart.
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I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
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Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World.
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You hurt and have sharp desire, yet your presence is a healing calm.
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I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.
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I am merely a guest born in this world, to know the secrets that lie beyond it.
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Be suspicious of what you want.
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The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.
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I have spent my life dreaming of your face. Now, I have found it.
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My wails of sorrow are tormenting my soul
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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.