Rumi Quotes
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There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.
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Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying.
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Work on your strong qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.
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I Lost Everything, I Have Found Myself.
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Don't flounder in the preambles of the past Wounded with regrets; don't let autumnal Nostalgia blind you to the sounds and scents Of the present's Spring; you're a native of The pellucid moment, make it infinite beyond The curving snake of passing time and space. Learn to die in the infinitely elusive moment.
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You have within you more love than you could ever understand.
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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
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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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A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden's beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land.
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On my heart in beautiful calligraphy You’ve written words that only You and I can know. Their secret You promised to reveal one day but now I see You were only teasing.
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If I could repeat it, people passing by would be enlightened and go free.
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Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.
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Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
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I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
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Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.
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People want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain
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Try something different. Surrender.
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A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
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Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.
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The cure for pain is in the pain.
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Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
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You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.