Rumi Quotes
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Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.
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Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
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I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within
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I made an oath to myself: as long as I live as long as my soul remains in this body I won't deviate from the right way but later I looked to my left and then to my right and I saw our beloved everywhere how could I make a wrong turn?
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Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.
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Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.
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Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.
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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
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When you are everywhere, you are nowhere When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”
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Your faces are very beautiful, but they are wooden cages. You had better run from me. My words are fire.
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Although the road is never ending take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance... On this path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.
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A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
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Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.
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There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.
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My sweet heart, you have aroused my passion, your touch has filled me with desire, I am no longer separate from you, these are precious moments, I beseech you, don’t let me wait.
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
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Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.
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God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive
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Death is our wedding with eternity.
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You are not a drop in a ocean You are entire ocean in a drop
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It doesn’t matter that you’ve broken your vow a thousand times. Still come, and yet again, come.
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Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.
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You are my wine, my joy, My garden, my springtime, My slumber, my repose, Without you, I can't cope.
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My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.