Rumi Quotes
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The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked
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When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.
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Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.
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Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises
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Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.
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Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond
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Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.
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When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
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Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.
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I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference
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When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.
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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
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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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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
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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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You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
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They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?
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God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.
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I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.
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Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.