Top 100 Rumi's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
Aberjhani
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that's a blessing.
Rumi
#11. 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
#12. Come on sweetheart
let's adore one another
before there is no more
of you and me
Rumi
#13. 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
#14. There's courage involved if you want to become Truth.
Rumi
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. But can you think of anyone who's not hazy with smoke?
Rumi
#18. There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.
Rumi
#19. 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
#20. The soul has been given it's own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.
Rumi
#21. We talk about this and that. There's no rest except on these branching moments.
Rumi
#22. It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you
Rumi
#23. Love's creed is separate from all religions.
Rumi
#24. In love's country, language doesn't have its place. Love is mute.
Rumi
#26. Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.
Rumi
#27. Nearness to God is common to us all,
Because we're all created and sustained by God,
But only the authentically noble
Possess and live that nearness
That's a constant upswelling passion of love.
Rumi
#28. 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
Rumi
#29. Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core.
Rumi
#30. You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.
Rumi
#31. Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
Rumi
#32. To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."
Rumi
#33. Whoever has Heart's doors wide open,
could see the Sun itself in every atom.
Rumi
#34. There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music ... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should ...
Rumi
#35. 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
#36. At every moment, Love's voice talks to us from left and from right. All we have to do is to know how to listen.
Rumi
#37. Lovers drink wine all day and night and tear the veils of the mind.
When drunk with love's wine, body, heart and soul become one.
Rumi
#38. The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.
Rumi
#39. I manage fine with no others around;
I cannot manage without you.
My heart bears your brand,
it won't wander away from you.
Reason's eye blurs with your wine
heaven's wheel spins under your thumb Pleasure's nose follows your lead,
I cannot manage without you.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#40. Muhammad says, 'Love of one's country is a part of the faith.' But don't take that literally! Your real 'country' is where you're heading, not where you are. Don't misread that hadith.
Rumi
#41. There is a way of loving not attached to what is loved.
Observe how water is with the ground,
always moving toward the ocean,
though the ground tries to hold water's foot
and not let it go.
Rumi
#42. I hang here like Hallaj, feeling those lips
on me, the honor of being lifted up
on a crucifixion apple tree.
Now the kissing is over.
Fold your love in.
Hide it like pastry filling.
Whisper within with
a shy girl's tenderness
Jalaluddin Rumi
#43. Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.
Rumi
#44. If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.
Rumi
#45. We can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror
Rumi
#46. Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.
Rumi
#47. A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another
Rumi
#48. What becomes of the heart, when the heart's hand grasps the hand of a sweetheart?
What becomes of the dross copper, when it hears the welcoming voice of the philosopher's stone?
Jalaluddin Rumi
#49. The woman
has great power. Se can tie knots in your chest that only God's breathing loosens. Don't
take her appeal lightly.
Rumi
#50. 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
#51. There's no cure, except the retreat into love,
For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts.
Rumi
#52. 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
#53. There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
Rumi
#54. Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.
Rumi
#55. When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.
Rumi
#56. Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull
into a cup for others to drink wine from.
In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man,
who doesn't know what he's about to do!
Rumi
#57. This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.
Rumi
#58. If my head holds one thought wise and clear, it's You.
Poor as I am, what I hold dear is You.
No matter how I see myself, I'm nothing ...
Anything I am entirely is You!
Rumi
#59. Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?
Rumi
#60. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars.
Rumi
#61. I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence
Rumi
#62. Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.
Rumi
#63. I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing?
Rumi
#64. Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.
Rumi
#65. Everyone is overridden by thoughts;
that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.
Rumi
#66. Sell Not Yourself At Little Price, Being So Precious In
God's Eyes.
Rumi
#67. There's a path from me to you
I'm constantly looking for,
so I try to keep clear and still
as water does with the moon.
Rumi
#68. Shadows can indicate what's shining bright But it's the sun which fills your soul with light,
Rumi
#69. Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.
Rumi
#70. Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace.
Rumi
#71. Life's waters flow from darkness, Search the darkness, don't run from it.
Rumi
#72. Rumi called his teacher "the friend." And that's what we need. We need friends.
Elizabeth Lesser
#73. The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God.
Rumi
#74. Don't try to steer the boat.
Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent.
You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear,
And if you do speak, ask for explanations.
Rumi
#75. Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.
Rumi
#76. Without delay, from the middle of his (closed) fist every pebble began to pronounce the (Moslem's) profession of faith. Each said, "There is no god" and (each) said, "except Allah"; (each) threaded the pearl of "Ahmad is the Messenger of Allah.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#77. Every need brings what's needed.
Pain bears its cure like a child.
Having nothing produces provisions.
Ask a difficult question,
And the marvelous answer appears.
Rumi
#78. From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean.
Rumi
#79. Don't stray from your Heart's intent.
Rumi
#80. Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.
Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.
Rumi
#81. Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.
Rumi
#82. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes, it's in front!
Jalaluddin Rumi
#83. 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
#84. War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.
Rumi
#85. A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.
Rumi
#86. No one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was.
Rumi
#87. Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER.
Rumi
#88. Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?
Rumi
#89. All we really want is love's confusing joy.
Rumi
#90. Here's the new rule: break the wineglass, and fall toward the glassblower's breath.
Rumi
#91. You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside
Rumi
#92. Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.
Rumi
#93. The wave of Atlast came along and caulked the body's ship; when the ship is wrecked once more, the turn of union and encounter will come.
Rumi
#94. 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
#95. I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence.
Rumi
#96. You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.
Rumi
#97. Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you.
Rumi
#98. My lips got lost on the way to the kiss -
that's how drunk I
was.
Rumi
#99. 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
#100. To the mind there is such a thing as news, whereas to inner knowing, it's all in the middle of its happening. To doubters, this is a pain. To believers, it's gospel. To the lover and the visionary, it's life as it's being lived.
Rumi
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