Rumi Quotes
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Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
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If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?
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Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.
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With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?
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Love is a river. Drink from it.
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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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When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.
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Beauty surrounds us.
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You are my shams.
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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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Woman is the light of God.
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Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.
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This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.
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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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Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.
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The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
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Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.
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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.
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And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
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You will learn by reading, But you will understand with LOVE.
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You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion
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O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.
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Choose to love the one who does not die.
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The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mine doesn't understand.