Rumi Quotes
-
A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
-
Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!
-
Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
-
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
-
Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.
-
In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances
-
I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul… Love says, “You are right, but don’t claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.
-
Every story is us
-
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
-
You had better run from me. My words are fire.
-
Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.
-
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!
-
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.
-
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
-
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames
-
Your boundaries are your quest.
-
When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth.
-
There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. and the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling! At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language door and open the lovers window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.
-
Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.
-
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.
-
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.
-
I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.
-
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.
-
A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.