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I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.
Rumi
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My Beloved Know that my beloved in hidden from everyone Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs Know that in my heart she is as clear as the moon Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul
Rumi
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Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
Rumi
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At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.
Rumi
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Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
Rumi
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There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.
Rumi
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This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.
Rumi
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A lover knows only humility, he has no choice. He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice. He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don't fret, he has no choice. In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment, he has no choice.
Rumi
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Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.
Rumi
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Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
Rumi
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Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.
Rumi
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I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
Rumi
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Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Rumi
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Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.
Rumi
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Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle
Rumi
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Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.
Rumi
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Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?
Rumi
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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.
Rumi
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As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.
Rumi
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
Rumi
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When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.
Rumi
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Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged
Rumi
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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
Rumi
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You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.
Rumi
