Quotes On Dance By Rumi

#1. You make my dance daring enough to finish. No more timidity. Let fruit fall, and wind turn my roots up in the air, done with patient waiting.

Rumi

#2. Sometimes I Do In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that light becomes this art.

Rumi

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

Rumi

#4. Dance from here to the other world-and don't stop.

Rumi

#5. There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.

Rumi

#6. I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.

Holly Lynn Payne

#7. We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust ...
The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.

Rumi

#8. In your beauty, how to make poems.

Rumi

#9. Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.

Rumi

#10. Live at the empty heart of paradox.
I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.

Rumi

#11. Forget every touch or sound that did not teach you how to dance

Rumi

#12. No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.

Holly Lynn Payne

#13. Angels dance only with You, Beloved
and only before You do I bow in adoration.
You may accept me or not but I will be at your feet forever.

Rumi

#14. 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

#15. A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.

Rumi

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

Rumi

#17. In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.

Rumi

#18. Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear? All day and night, music, a quiet, bright reedsong. If it fades, we fade.

Rumi

#19. Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.

Rumi

#20. Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.

Rumi

#21. Don't ask me about prayer rocks
Anyplace I put my head is a prayer rock.
Don't talk of direction
All six directions face Him.
Gardens, flames, nightingale,
whirling dance, and brotherhood
Throw all these away
and throw yourself into His love.

Rumi

#22. Oh god
Let all lovers be content
Give them happy endings
Let their lives be celebrations
Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love

Rumi

#23. In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#24. We watch a sunlight dust dance,
and we try to be that lively,
but nobody knows what music those particles hear.
Each of us has a secret companion musician to dance to.
Unique rhythmic play, a motion in the street we alone know and hear.

Rumi

#25. This dance is the joy of existence.

Rumi

#26. Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

Rumi

#27. When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?

Rumi

#28. When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.

Rumi

#29. A fish wants to dive from dry land
into the ocean
when it hears the roaring waves.
A falcon wants to return from the forest
to the King's wrist
when it hears the drum beating "Return."
A Sufi, shimmering with light,
wants to dance like a sunbeam
when darkness surrounds him.

Rumi

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

Holly Lynn Payne