Rumi Quotes
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In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.
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True beauty is a ray. That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.
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Travel brings power and love back into your life.
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I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection. I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me. I choose to adore you from a distance, for distance will shield me from pain. I chose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips. I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams you have no end.
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
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To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your own heart.
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Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
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Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
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First, when I was apart from you, this world did not exist, nor any other. Second, whatever I was looking for was always you.
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When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.
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All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
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I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.
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You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?
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I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.
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Those beautiful words we said to one another are hidden in the secret heart of heaven. One day, like the rain, they will pour our love story all over the world.
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When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine.
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The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
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My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
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Is your face a beautiful blossom or a sweet torture? I have no complaints but my heart is tempted to let you hear of its sorrows.
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My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.
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Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
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Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.
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The wave of Atlast came along and caulked the body's ship; when the ship is wrecked once more, the turn of union and encounter will come.
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We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.