Quotes by Rumi

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

Everything is soul and flowering.

Speak with the language of love.

Love alone can explain the mysteries of Love.

Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.

If someone asks,
But what is Love?
Answer,
Dissolving the will.

The way to heaven is within.

Only love itself can explain love and lovers.

Love is the vital core of the soul. And of all you see, only love is infinite.

Love calls -- everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming?

Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal.

Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.

Go to the well of deep Love inside each of Us.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Beauty surrounds us.

I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Silence gives answers.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

Remember the entrance to the sanctuary is inside you.

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

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.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

The soul is here for its own joy.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

We are born of love; Love is our mother.

The way of love is not
a subtle argument.

The door there
is devastation.

Birds make great sky-circles
of their freedom.
How do they learn it?

They fall, and falling,
they're given wings.

You are so weak. Give up to grace.
The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.
You need more help than you know.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.

The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

I am another you, you are another me.

Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

For the thirst to possess your love,
Is worth my blood a hundred times.

Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me, do not grow,
Oh time, without me, do not go.

...Oh, you cannot go, without me.

For without you, I swear, the town
Has become like a prison to me.
Distraction and the mountain
And the desert, all I desire.

The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.

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.

Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul.

Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free.

Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one who becomes a servant of lovers
is really a fortunate sovereign.
Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love.
Love is a cloud that scatters pearls.

The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire.
Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,
but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight is blind
and try to see a treasure in everyone.

Let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.

The prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.

Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace.

There is a community of the spirit
Join it, and feel the delight
of walking in the noisy street,
and being the noise.

Go find yourself first
So you can also find me.

Be relentless in your looking, because you are the one you seek.

Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.

Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.

Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.

If you want the moon, do not hide at night. If you want a rose, do not run from the thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself.

Now i am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.

Submit to love without thinking, as the sun rose this morning recklessly extinguishing our star-candle minds.

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.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

Come inside the heart's house. There is peace and solace there.

Why are you knocking at every other door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.

The only real rest comes when you're alone with God.

Be silent, only the hand of God can remove the burdens of your heart.

There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.

If you want something, release the wish, and let it light on its desire, completely free of the personal.

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.

The hurt you embrace becomes joy.

If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.

You suppose that you are the lock on the door. But you are the key that opens it.

Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle.

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!

You show your worth by what you seek.

The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.

When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you're expansive, no matter what the weather, you're in an open, windy field with friends.

Don't seek the water; get thirst.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all! .

The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute.

Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.

Believe in love's infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love is life.

Reason is powerless in the expression of love.

Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.

My religion is to be alive from LOVE.

Your body is away from me,
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.

Open to me, so that I may open.
Provide me your inspiration
So that I might see mine.

There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.

I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.

Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.