Rumi Quotes
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The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mine doesn't understand.
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You are my shams.
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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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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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Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
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Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
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Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.
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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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Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that.
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Beauty surrounds us.
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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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The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
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Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.
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There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.
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Choose to love the one who does not die.
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Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.
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There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light from another source.
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Your boundaries are your quest.
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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.
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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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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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Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!
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There is a place born of silence A place where the whispers of the heart arise. There is a place where voices sing your beauty A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.
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Every story is us