Rumi Quotes
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You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane
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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.
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Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
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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.
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Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
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Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.
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Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love
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There are no edges to my loving now.
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Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.
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The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
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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.
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The pathless path opens whenever you genuinely say, There is no reality but God. There is only God.
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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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Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space.
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I am not from east or west not up from the ground or out of the ocean my place is placeless a trace of the traceless I belong to the beloved
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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.
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Beauty surrounds us.
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Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.
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Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.
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Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
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To Love is to be God. Never will a Lover's chest feel any sorrow. Never will a Lover's robe be touched by mortals. Never will a Lover's body be found buried in the earth. To Love is to be God.
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Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!
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Wake up: This world that you dream holds nothing to fear.
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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.