Top 100 Quotes About Rumi
#1. 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
#2. Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.
Elif Shafak
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. There is a Force within That gives you life Seek that. - Rumi
Jaggi Vasudev
#6. Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.
Idries Shah
#7. Then you pray the prayer that is the essence of every ritual: God, I have no hope. I am torn to shreds. You are my first and my last and only refuge. Don't do daily prayers like a bird pecking, moving its head up and down. Prayer is an egg. Hatch out the total helplessness inside. - RUMI
Tim Farrington
#8. If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.
Rumi
#9. Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
#10. [Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity ... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral ...
Coleman Barks
#11. I lost everything I had, but in the process I found myself." - Rumi, 13th-century Persian poet and mystic.
Rahul Deokar
#12. I am not this hair,
I am not this skin,
I am the soul that lives within. - Rumi
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#13. Instead of an outer-oriented jihad - defined as "the war against infidels" and carried out by many in those days just as in the present - Rumi stood up for an inner-oriented jihad where the aim was to struggle against and ultimately prevail over one's ego, nafs.
Elif Shafak
#14. Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. Rumi advised me to keep my spirit
up in the branches of a tree and not peek
out too far, so I keep mine in the very tall
willows along the irrigation ditch out back
Jim Harrison
#16. You who seek God, apart, apart The thing you seek, thou art, thou art. If you want to seek the Beloved's face. Polish the mirror, gaze into that space. These words were written by Rumi as a tribute for his master guru Shams of Tabriz.
Wayne W. Dyer
#17. The intelligent want self-control; children want candy. - RUMI
Kelly McGonigal
#18. Ramana Maharshi and Rumi would agree: the joy of being human is in uncovering the core we already are, the treasure buried in the ruin.
Coleman Barks
#19. From 'A Bowl Fallen From the Roof'
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 ways to the shore.
-Rumi
Coleman Barks
#20. Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are.-Rumi
Ahmet Umit
#21. The more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is incomplete unless one includes the central theme of love.
Rumi
#22. What I deeply want ... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self.
Coleman Barks
#23. Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)
Idries Shah
#24. Rumi called his teacher "the friend." And that's what we need. We need friends.
Elizabeth Lesser
#25. But the story didn't end there. Almost 800 years later, the spirits of Shams & Rumi are still alive today,whirling amid us somewhere ...
Elif Shafak
#26. Rumi and Shams bring to our lives the simple truth that we are not alone, that God really does care. And God's joyous love for each of us is rivaled only by Her divine sense of humor.
Jamila Hammad
#27. Rumi says: Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing There is a field. I'll meet you there.
Elizabeth Lesser
#28. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. - RUMI
Jandy Nelson
#29. Does sunset sometimes look like the sun is coming up? Do you know what a faithful love is like? You're crying; you say you've burned yourself. But can you think of anyone who's not hazy with smoke? - Rumi
Anne Lamott
#30. There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.
Arianna Huffington
#31. It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).
Idries Shah
#32. I've been practicing Ayurvedic medicine, and I've read the 'Bhagavad Gita' and Rumi, and these are very important.
Andie MacDowell
#33. Every single corner and aspect of our lives, every single choice, will be different if we take the invitation of this [Rumi's] poetry to act from the Divine Center of Silence and allow the glory of the Presence to soak our every movement.
Andrew Harvey
#34. Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient Indian man named Vyasa.
Abhijit Naskar
#35. I love you neither with my heart
nor with my mind.
My heart might stop
my mind can forget.
I love you with
my soul because
my soul never stops
or forgets.
-Rumi
Rumi
#36. A man once asked Rumi, "Why is it you talk so much about silence?" His answer: "The radiant one inside me has never said a word.
Coleman Barks
#37. Shams was the wind that would blow the scholar's turban off from Rumi's head, and turn a quiet academic into an enthusiastic lover of God.
Cihan Okuyucu
#38. There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen. - Rumi
Akemi G
#39. As Rumi says, "We're all just walking each other home.
Brene Brown
#40. Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn't know you needed transforming.
Jerry Stahl
#41. We had little idea that this was the beginning of a much greater journey towards finding our true self, with Rumi and Shams as our fearless guides.
Jamila Hammad
#42. My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.
Hafez Nazeri
#43. I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
Quincy Jones
#44. When one of us gets lost, is not here, he or she must be inside us.
There's no place like that anywhere in the world.'
Rumi
Rumi
#45. Rumi says, 'Meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.' With awareness, know which emotions are in the house, and why they're there, and never forget who you are when the guests leave.
Ian Lawton
#46. Imitating others, I failed to find myself. I looked inside and discovered I only knew my name. When I stepped outside I found my real Self. ~Rumi
Maryam Mafi
#47. The Persian poet Rumi says, The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want.
Elizabeth Lesser
#48. The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
Aberjhani
#49. The hearts of all mystic lovers." Likewise when Ibn Arabi, the distinguished philosopher, writer, and mystic, saw the young Rumi walking behind his father one day, he exclaimed, "Glory be to God, an ocean is
Elif Shafak
#50. I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.
Mary Oliver
#51. From the clear center of my heart, there are no edges to my loving you. I've heard it said there's a window that opens from one mind to another, but if there were no wall, what need of installing a window?" - RUMI
Darren R. Weissman
#52. I like to hope that Rumi's poems, even in translation, carry the essence of the transforming friendship of Rumi and Shams, that the sun can reappear, whole and radiant in any one of us at any moment.
Rumi
#53. Come beloved, and sit at the gate of Nothingness, God will bring you bread without the taste of bread, Sweetness without the honey or the bee, And when the future and past are dissolved There will only be you, lying senseless like a lute On the breast of God. - Rumi
Ian Gawler
#55. Though you read a hundred volumes without a pause,
you won't remember a single point without a Divine decree;
but if you serve God and read not a single book,
you'll learn rare sciences within your own heart.
~ Mevlana aka Rumi
Mevlana
#56. Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
Robert Bly
#57. The poet Rumi said that "the price of kissing is your life." He was right, and he was offering us a carrot. What he did not mention is the stick: that the price of not kissing is your miserable unkissed life.
Anne Benvenuti
#58. The poet Rumi says: How long will we fill our pockets like children with dirt and stones? Let the world go. Holding it, we never know ourselves, never are airborne.
Sharon Salzberg
#59. I don't have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women aren't iPhone apps that I download and discard!
Natasha Ahmed
#60. My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#61. You cannot believe what you do not believe, Rumi siad. I am an Untouchable because my karma dictates it.
Christopher Moore
#62. And Rumi tells us, 'Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue'.
Idries Shah
#63. Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.
Mary Lambert
#64. The poet Rumi saw clearly the relationship between our wounds and our awakening. He counseled, Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.
Tara Brach
#65. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. - Rumi
Wayne W. Dyer
#66. Rumi says, Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting. That
Jalaluddin Rumi
#67. All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope.
Henri Nouwen
#69. Rumi observed, "Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.
Wayne W. Dyer
#70. Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.
Idries Shah
#71. If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi's poetry is really remarkable.
Huston Smith
#72. Be silent, and sit down, for you are drunk, and this is the edge of the roof. - RUMI
Robert V.S. Redick
#73. He remembers a verse from the mystic poet, Rumi, Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
J.J. Brown
#74. 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
#75. Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes.
Rumi
#76. If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.
Idries Shah
#77. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Rumi
#78. 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
#79. From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.
Rumi
#80. Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic
Rumi
#81. The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross.
Rumi
#82. 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
#83. You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.
Rumi
#84. Love is the vital core of the soul,
and of all you see, only love is infinite
Jalaluddin Rumi
#85. The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
Rumi
#86. There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
Rumi
#87. Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
Rumi
#88. 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
#90. I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.
Rumi
#91. Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset
Rumi
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself.
Rumi
#95. The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.
Holly Lynn Payne
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. The source of now is here.
Rumi
#99. Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
Rumi
#100. The Prophets accept all agony and trust it
For the water has never feared the fire.
Rumi
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