Quotes About Rumi

#1. Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.

Rumi

#2. Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes.

Rumi

#3. If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

Idries Shah

#4. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Rumi

#5. There is giving, and there is knowingness. Some have generosity and compassion but no true knowledge. Some have knowledge but no self-sacrifice. When both are present, that person is blessed and prosperous. Such a being is truly incomparable.

Rumi

#6. From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.

Rumi

#7. Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic

Rumi

#8. The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross.

Rumi

#9. 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.

Rumi

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

Rumi

#11. Love is the vital core of the soul,
and of all you see, only love is infinite

Jalaluddin Rumi

#12. The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

Rumi

#13. There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.

Rumi

#14. Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?

Rumi

#15. I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; / But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world.

Rumi

#16. Look for the answer inside your question.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#17. I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.

Rumi

#18. Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset

Rumi

#19. You are the Essence of the Essence,
The intoxication of Love.
I long to sing Your Praises
but stand mute
with the agony of wishing in my heart !

Rumi

#20. 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.

Rumi

#21. Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself.

Rumi

#22. The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.

Holly Lynn Payne

#23. 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.

Rumi

#24. I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.

Rumi

#25. The source of now is here.

Rumi

#26. Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side ... . Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now. - RUMI

Tim Farrington

#27. Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

Rumi

#28. The Prophets accept all agony and trust it
For the water has never feared the fire.

Rumi

#29. Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential.
Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

Rumi

#30. Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them

Rumi

#31. Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that's a blessing.

Rumi

#32. Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

Rumi

#33. Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy.

Rumi

#34. The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.

Rumi

#35. Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.

Elif Shafak

#36. The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder.

Rumi

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

Rumi

#38. Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#39. I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?
Look at your eyes. They are small,
but they see enormous things.

Rumi

#40. God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion !

Rumi

#41. When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men.

Rumi

#42. Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring.

Rumi

#43. Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.

Rumi

#44. Come on sweetheart
let's adore one another
before there is no more
of you and me

Rumi

#45. Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.

Rumi

#46. I was once like you, enlightened and "rational",
I too scoffed at lovers,
Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery.
No one is safe! Watch out.

Rumi

#47. This whole universe is but a drop
of His Beauty!

Rumi

#48. Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?
Why would you refuse to give
this joy to anyone?
Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups!
They swim the huge fluid freedom.

Rumi

#49. Shams is a trumpet note of light
that starts the atoms spinning,
a wind that comes at dawn
tasting of bread and salt.
Move to the edge and over. Fly with the wings
he gives, and if you get tired, lie down,
but keep opening inside your soul.

Rumi

#50. If you show patience
If you show patience, I'll rid you of this virtue.
If you fall asleep, I'll rub the sleep from your eyes.
If you become a mountain, I'll melt you in fire.
And if you become an ocean, I'll drink all your water.

Rumi

#51. A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl without a shell. a mindful flooding. a spark turned to flame. bird settling nest. love lived

Rumi

#52. They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

Rumi

#53. The Ego is a veil between humans and God'."
"In prayer all are equal.

Rumi

#54. In real existence there is only unity.

Rumi

#55. If you look too closely at the form, you'll miss the essence

Rumi

#56. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Why do you worry?

Rumi

#57. Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold.

Rumi

#58. We have fallen into the sugar shaker.
We are the ground beneath you.
Let someone else describe the sky.
Hold us in silence.
Do no throw us back
into some discussion.

Rumi

#59. There's courage involved if you want to become Truth.

Rumi

#60. Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.

Rumi

#61. He alone has the right to break, for He alone has the power to mend.

Rumi

#62. LOVE will lay a carpet of treasures under your feet.

Rumi

#63. Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.

Rumi

#64. I love this world, even as I hear the great wind of leaving it rising, for there is a grainy taste I prefer to every idea of heaven: human friendship.

Rumi

#65. My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.

Rumi

#66. EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI
When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

Idries Shah

#67. Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.

Rumi

#68. Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.

Rumi

#69. 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

Rumi

#70. The love religion is all that is written here.

Rumi

#71. A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself.
That's how I hold your voice.
I am scrap wood thrown in your fire,
and quickly reduced to smoke.

Rumi

#72. Love cannot be described. It must be tasted.

Rumi

#73. I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

Rumi

#74. If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.

Rumi

#75. God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

Rumi

#76. But can you think of anyone who's not hazy with smoke?

Rumi

#77. I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams
to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility.
where suffering and pain do not exist,
where we give praises for our joy and happiness,
where our Love interwines with Love for all things.

Rumi

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

Rumi

#79. This world is full of remedies. But you have no remedy until God opens a window for you. You may not be aware of that remedy just now. In the hour of need it will be made clear to you. The Prophet said God made a remedy for every pain.

Rumi

#80. 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.

Rumi

#81. But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.

Rumi

#82. The eye of the intellect is drunk with You, the wheeling galaxy is humble before You, the ear of ecstasy is in Your hand; nothing happens without You.
The soul is bubbling with You, the heart imbibes from You, the intellect bellows in rapture; nothing happens without You.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#83. Have you ever seen a seed fallen to earth not rise with a new life why should you doubt the rise of a seed named human.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#84. Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home.
While you look for trinkets
The treasure house awaits you in your own being.

Rumi

#85. When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind

Rumi

#86. Rumi and Shams taught us how to see the world with new eyes, how to find our place in the order of things, and how to extricate the true self trapped under layers of noise.

Jamila Hammad

#87. The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful.

Rumi

#88. If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul.

Rumi

#89. If I Separated Myself
From You ... I Would Turn
Entirely Thorn!

Rumi

#90. Appear as you are, Be as you appear.

Rumi

#91. Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence

Rumi

#92. you only knew what bliss I found in being nothing you would not advise me how to live. When

Jalaluddin Rumi

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

Rumi

#94. There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.

Rumi

#95. In the bazaar of herbs and potions Don't wander aimlessly, Find the shop with a potion That is sweet.

Rumi

#96. 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.

Rumi

#97. There is a Force within That gives you life Seek that. - Rumi

Jaggi Vasudev

#98. Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.

Rumi

#99. 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.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#100. Open your hands if you want to be held.

Rumi