Quotes by Rumi (Page 3 of 4)

I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!

Know that the mirror of the heart is boundless... Here, opinions become silent, otherwise they will lead you into errors... for the heart is sacred -- even more the heart is sacredness itself.

Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.

The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before.

We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces.

No mirror ever became iron again;
No bread ever became wheat;
No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
Become the light.

Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity.
Go beyond your tangled thoughts and
find the splendor of paradise.

Why set your heart on a piece ofearth,seek out the source which shines forever.

Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.

Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice.

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.

What strikes the oyster shell
doesn't damage the pearl.

We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

Everything else than sea is a torment to a fish.

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.

Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.

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.

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!

Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship.

World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.

Everything that you want, you are already that.

Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

Your body is woven from the light of heaven. Are you aware that its purity and swiftness is the envy of angels and its courage keeps even devils away.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!

Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.

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.

The gates made of light swing open. You see in.

Open the window of your heart and let the Spirit speak.

There is a window from one heart to another heart.

Dance when you're perfectly free.

Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.

As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.

Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself.

Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season.

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.

We bury our seeds and wait,
Winter blocks the road,
Flowers are taken prisoner underground,
But then green justice tenders a spear.

Love is such a vast sea, it has neither edges nor ends nor corners.

The moon has become a dancer at this festival of love.

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.

Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

No prayer is complete without presence.

With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?

Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.

There is a Soul within the Soul. Seek it out. There is a Treasure in your mountain. Seek it Out. A mystic in motion, if that's what you are, don't seek out there; seek inside.

The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.

Because I cannot sleep I make music in the night.

Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?

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.

From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.

Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love's stallion knows the way exactly. With one leap, Love's horse will carry you home.

Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him.

You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home.

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.

Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.

You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.

Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.

When was the last time you found treasure coffers ensconced in your own house? Treasures always hide among old ruins and wreckage.

Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings.

My soul is my guide, for my soul is of that abode. I will not speak of the earthly. I am of the unknown.

Actually, your soul and mine are the same. We appear and disappear with each other.

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.

A little while alone in your room
will prove more valuable than anything else
that could ever be given you.

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen!

Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

Love is cure,
Love is power,
Love is the magic of changes.
Love is the mirror, of divine beauty!

The work of magic is this, that it breathes and at every breath transforms realities.

It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.

The world is a playground, and death is the night.

I am sunlight slicing the dark.

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

Pure souls, didn't I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter.

There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.

Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?

There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.

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.

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

Drunks fear the police
but the police are drunk too.

A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.

All roses fall prey to December.
All intellect falls prey to love's glory.
Since the rose is not eternal
Why be captured by its scent?
Let me know your secrets--
Only the ones that last forever.

That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights.

Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.

All language is a longing for home.

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all.

If Light Is In Your Heart
You Will Find Your Way Home.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.

The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love.

The Ego is a veil between humans and God.
In prayer all are equal.

You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it.

Once you have met a true human being,
Let him not disappear from the horizon of your heart.

Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.

Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.

Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.

You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it.

There is nothing outside of yourself, look within. Everything you want is there. You are That.

Don't you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.

A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man.

Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.

The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites.

Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God.

Love means to reach for the sky
and with every breath to tear a
hundred veils. Love means to step
away from the ego, to open the eyes
of inner vision and not to take this
world so seriously.

Prayer clears the mist
and brings back peace to the Soul.

I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover.

Finding faults is for those with tired minds.

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky.

This is Now. Now is,
all there is. Don't wait for Then;
strike the spark, light the fire.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.

Wisdom tells us we are not worthy;
Love tells us we are.
My life flows between the two.

Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.

Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.

Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe.

I am so close, I may look distant.

Don't be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don't forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.

Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments.

What you are seeking is also seeking you.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it,
and your face will come to shine like a sun,
and everyone who sees it will
be made glad and peaceful.

I love my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind.
Just in case...
Heart might stop. Mind can forget.
I love them with my soul.
Soul never stops or forgets.

It's your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

Yesterday is gone and took away its tale.
Today we must live a fresh story again.

When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.

There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way.

The quieter we become, the more we can hear.

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

You show your worth by what you seek.

Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure.

Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love.

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

I am not this hair. I am not this skin. I am the soul that lives within.

When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home.

Fruits ripen with a little warmth, not fire,
A furnace's heat fruit does not require.

Outer eyes are the inner eyes' reflection,
For outer eyes are under their direction.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river of joy within you.

Only union with you gives joy.
The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.

Die! Die! Die in this love!
If you die in this love,Your soul will be renewed.
Die! Die! Don't fear the death of that which is known
If you die to the temporal, You will become timeless.

A wealth you cannot imagine
flows through you.
Do not consider what strangers say.
Be secluded in your secret heart-house,
that bowl of silence.

There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.

We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.

Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
your heart must forget about
shame and dignity.
You are God's lover,
yet you worry
what people
are saying.

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.

Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.

The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You -- the best you around!

All is known in the sacredness of silence.

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it.

Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief.

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it.
For God has placed a pearl in sorrow's hand.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.

You have no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself, enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.

If you find me not within you, you will never find me. For I have been with you, from the beginning of me.

This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

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.

This moment is all there is.

Don't feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.

Don't move the way fear makes you move.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

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.

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.