“If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.” – Rumi
“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
“Listen to the sound of waves within you.” – Rumi
“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” – Rumi
“May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.” – Rumi
“I should be suspicious of what I want.” – Rumi
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” – Rumi
“To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.” – Rumi
“Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.” – Rumi
“We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust… The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.” – Rumi
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” – Rumi
“It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” – Rumi
“The source of now is here.” – Rumi
“The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.” – Rumi
“We rarely hear the inward music, but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless.” – Rumi
“My heart, sit only with those who know and understand you.” – Rumi
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.” – Rumi
“Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.” – Rumi
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” – Rumi
“Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset.” – Rumi
“Oh! Joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.” – Rumi
“The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.” – Rumi
“Study me as much as you like, you will never know me. For I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be.” – Rumi
“This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.” – Rumi
“Let silence be the art you practice.” – Rumi
“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
“And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.” – Rumi
“Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.” – Rumi
“You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?” – Rumi
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” – Rumi
“I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.” – Rumi
“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.” – Rumi
“This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you’ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.” – Rumi
“Your task? To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light.” – Rumi
“There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.” – Rumi
“Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything.” – Rumi
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.” – Rumi
“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.” – Rumi
“Two there are who are never satisfied – the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.” – Rumi
“Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.” – Rumi
“In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.” – Rumi
“Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.” – Rumi
“Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the light.” – Rumi
“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.” – Rumi
“I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.” – Rumi
“I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.” – Rumi
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” – Rumi
“Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.” – Rumi
“When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” – Rumi
“You’ve come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don’t know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.” – Rumi
“Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.” – Rumi
“When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe.” – Rumi
“Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.” – Rumi
“Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.” – Rumi
“My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit. I will meet you there.” – Rumi
“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.” – Rumi
“The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind.” – Rumi
“Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.” – Rumi
“I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.” – Rumi
“Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the soul.” – Rumi
“A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain.” – Rumi
“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!” – Rumi
“I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.” – Rumi
“If destiny comes to help you, love will come to meet you. A life without love isn’t a life.” – Rumi
“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.” – Rumi
“You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.” – Rumi
“Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something, will find it.” – Rumi
“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.” – Rumi
“All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.” – Rumi
“My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.” – Rumi
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” – Rumi
“The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.” – Rumi
“The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.” – Rumi
“Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, “Be more silent.” As that happens, your soul starts to revive.” – Rumi
“That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.” – Rumi
“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.” – Rumi
“Love will find its way through all languages on its own.” – Rumi
“Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.” – Rumi
“But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.” – Rumi
“I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.” – Rumi
“Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.” – Rumi
“The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you.” – Rumi
“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?” – Rumi
“The spirit is so near that you can’t see it! But reach for it… don’t be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don’t be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.” – Rumi
“Be kind to yourself, dear – to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us.” – Rumi
“Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.” – Rumi
“Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love.” – Rumi
“Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.” – Rumi
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.” – Rumi
“The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.” – Rumi
“Touched. How did you get here? Close your eyes… and surrender!” – Rumi
“When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near the truth.” – Rumi
“When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes – to love more, and be happy.” – Rumi
“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.” – Rumi
“In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.” – Rumi
“Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.” – Rumi
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
“You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?” – Rumi
“Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.” – Rumi
“The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.” – Rumi
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” – Rumi
“Now I am sober and there’s only the hangover and the memory of love.” – Rumi
“Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.” – Rumi
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.” – Rumi
“Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy.” – Rumi
“To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life.” – Rumi
“The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind.” – Rumi
“Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you’re looking at the light with infinite eyes.” – Rumi
“Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.” – Rumi
“There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it’s always in motion.” – Rumi
“Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.” – Rumi
“Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.” – Rumi
“However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations… Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.” – Rumi
“Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what’s hidden.” – Rumi
“What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?” – Rumi
“The universe and the light of the stars come through me.” – Rumi
“Inside any deep asking is the answering.” – Rumi
“Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep, or games, but only by seeing their beloved.” – Rumi
“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.” – Rumi
“In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.” – Rumi
“Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.” – Rumi
“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.” – Rumi
“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” – Rumi
“When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.” – Rumi
“Patience is the key to joy.” – Rumi
“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.” – Rumi
“Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.” – Rumi
“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.” – Rumi
“Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.” – Rumi
“Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you… This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.” – Rumi
“Be with those who help your being.” – Rumi
“All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.” – Rumi
“Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.” – Rumi
“Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom.” – Rumi
“We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.” – Rumi
“Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.” – Rumi
“Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.” – Rumi
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” – Rumi
“Life is balance of holding on and letting go.” – Rumi
“Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.” – Rumi
“When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.” – Rumi
“If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.” – Rumi
“If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road.” – Rumi
“There is nothing I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves.” – Rumi
“Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.” – Rumi
“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi
“The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do.” – Rumi
“By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.” – Rumi
“Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.” – Rumi
“Let the beauty we love be what we do.” – Rumi
“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?” – Rumi
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi
“We are all the same… all the same… longing to find our way back… back to the One… back to the only One!” – Rumi
“Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.” – Rumi
“Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.” – Rumi
“Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.” – Rumi
“Till man destroys “self” he is no true friend of God.” – Rumi
“If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.” – Rumi
“Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.” – Rumi
“Don’t you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.” – Rumi
“In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.” – Rumi
“Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.” – Rumi
“Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.” – Rumi
“Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.” – Rumi
“Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.” – Rumi
“The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.” – Rumi
“This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.” – Rumi
“Raise your words not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers not thunder.” – Rumi
“You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.” – Rumi
“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.” – Rumi
“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah… it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.” – Rumi
“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” – Rumi
“Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.” – Rumi
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.” – Rumi
“The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.” – Rumi
“Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.” – Rumi
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” – Rumi
“The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.” – Rumi
“The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open.” – Rumi
“Let your teacher be love itself.” – Rumi
“The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.” – Rumi
“When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.” – Rumi
“What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.” – Rumi
“I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.” – Rumi
“There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.” – Rumi
“There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.” – Rumi
“In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.” – Rumi
“Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.” – Rumi
“When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.” – Rumi
“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.” – Rumi
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi
“Be drunk with love, for love is all that exists.” – Rumi
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi
“Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.” – Rumi
“Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don’t give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.” – Rumi
“Those who don’t feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don’t drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don’t want to change, let them sleep.” – Rumi
“May these vows and this marriage be blessed.” – Rumi
“The rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorns.” – Rumi
“Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.” – Rumi
“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
“Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.” – Rumi
“Silence gives answers.” – Rumi
“Sorrow… It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” – Rumi
“My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.” – Rumi
“What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.” – Rumi
“Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.” – Rumi
“Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.” – Rumi
“There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds.” – Rumi
“If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.” – Rumi
“Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.” – Rumi
“Wherever water flows, life flourishes: wherever tears fall, divine mercy is shown.” – Rumi
“On the path of love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the master painter.” – Rumi
“The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.” – Rumi
“There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” – Rumi
“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” – Rumi
“Sit, be still, and listen.” – Rumi
“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.” – Rumi
“Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen.” – Rumi
“The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.” – Rumi
“Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.” – Rumi
“Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.” – Rumi
“When you lose all sense of self, the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish.” – Rumi
“Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.” – Rumi
“Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets. But they are not gone.” – Rumi
“Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything.” – Rumi
“The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.” – Rumi
“When you do things from the soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” – Rumi
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.” – Rumi
“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.” – Rumi
“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.” – Rumi
“Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.” – Rumi
“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
“There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.” – Rumi
“Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.” – Rumi
“Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.” – Rumi
“Let yourself become living poetry.” – Rumi
“If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.” – Rumi
“You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.” – Rumi
“What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.” – Rumi
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” – Rumi
“Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own soul. Enter the ruins of your heart and learn the meaning of humility.” – Rumi
“If you want money more than anything, you’ll be bought and sold your whole life.” – Rumi
“To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.” – Rumi
“Whatever happens to you, don’t fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can’t see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path…Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.” – Rumi
“If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.” – Rumi
“Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.” – Rumi
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor… Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” – Rumi
“Be an empty page, untouched by words.” – Rumi
“Let’s rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another.” – Rumi
“Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?” – Rumi
“Clean out your ears, don’t listen for what you already know.” – Rumi
“All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.” – Rumi
“Dance until you shatter yourself.” – Rumi
“O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.” – Rumi
“Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.” – Rumi
“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?” – Rumi
“This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.” – Rumi
“Let silence take you to the core of life.” – Rumi
“Open your hands if you want to be held.” – Rumi
“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” – Rumi
“Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.” – Rumi
“Why ever talk of miracles when you are destined to become infinite love.” – Rumi
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.” – Rumi
“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
“All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.” – Rumi
“Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.” – Rumi
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.” – Rumi
“There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.” – Rumi
“Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.” – Rumi
“Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.” – Rumi
“Thankfulness brings you to the place where the beloved lives.” – Rumi
“Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits.” – Rumi
“The soul is here for its own joy.” – Rumi
“Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.” – Rumi
“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
“This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.” – Rumi
“Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.” – Rumi
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.” – Rumi
“Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.” – Rumi
“I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.” – Rumi
“There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there’s another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.” – Rumi
“Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another… It’s all praise, and it’s all right.” – Rumi
“Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.” – Rumi
“If you love someone, you are always joined with them – in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.” – Rumi
“Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I’ll meet you there.” – Rumi
“How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.” – Rumi
“I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.” – Rumi
“On what is fear: Non-acceptance of uncertainty. If we accept that uncertainty, it becomes an adventure!” – Rumi
“If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.” – Rumi
“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one” – Rumi
“Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.” – Rumi
“Love risks everything and asks for nothing.” – Rumi
“Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?” – Rumi
“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.” – Rumi
“A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.” – Rumi
“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety; If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without any pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret in this for anyone who can grasp it.” – Rumi
“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
“I am a child whose teacher is love surely my master won’t let me grow to be a fool.” – Rumi
“Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.” – Rumi
“Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.” – Rumi
“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.” – Rumi
“Each moment contains a hundred messages from God.” – Rumi
“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” – Rumi
“There is a voice that doesn’t use words, listen.” – Rumi
“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.” – Rumi
“The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a true human being.” – Rumi
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” – Rumi
“Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.” – Rumi
“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.” – Rumi
“I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The soul calls from within me: ‘You, ignorant of the way of Love, set me free.’” – Rumi
“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.” – Rumi
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” – Rumi
“One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.” – Rumi
“Love is the water of life. Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar-eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the water of life.” – Rumi
“A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.” – Rumi
“Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.” – Rumi
“What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?” – Rumi
“Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.” – Rumi
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.” – Rumi
“What you seek is seeking you.” – Rumi
“Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.” – Rumi
“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
“The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.” – Rumi
“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.” – Rumi
“You are not one you are a thousand. Just light your lantern.” – Rumi
“The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.” – Rumi
“Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.” – Rumi
“What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.” – Rumi
“It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” – Rumi
“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.” – Rumi
“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.” – Rumi
“That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again.” – Rumi
“Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.” – Rumi
“When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.” – Rumi
“Joy lives concealed in grief.” – Rumi
“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” – Rumi
“Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your heart from the darkness of hate.” – Rumi
“Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.” – Rumi
“Why, when God’s world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?” – Rumi
“The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.” – Rumi
“I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me.” – Rumi
“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.” – Rumi
“That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.” – Rumi
“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.” – Rumi
“I have found the heart and will never leave this house of light.” – Rumi
“Love is a river. Drink from it.” – Rumi
“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.” – Rumi
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Rumi
“It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.” – Rumi
“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
“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.” – Rumi
“We are born of love; Love is our mother.” – Rumi
“Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?” – Rumi
“The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.” – Rumi
“Shine like the whole universe is yours.” – Rumi
“I have neither a soul nor a body, for I come from the very Soul of all souls.” – Rumi
“I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.” – Rumi
“This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.” – Rumi
“What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.” – Rumi
“Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul.” – Rumi
“Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.” – Rumi
“Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.” – Rumi
“If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.” – Rumi
“Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.” – Rumi
“It’s your road and yours alone others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” – Rumi
“Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.” – Rumi
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” – Rumi
“Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder.” – Rumi
“Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.” – Rumi
“The lion is most handsome when looking for food.” – Rumi
“Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.” – Rumi
“We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.” – Rumi
“When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.” – Rumi
“Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.” – Rumi
“Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.” – Rumi
“Love is the water of life, jump into this water.” – Rumi
“Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that’s why they have so much heartache and sorrow.” – Rumi
“Your heart is the size of an ocean . Go find yourself in its hidden depths.” – Rumi
“Move, but don’t move the way fear makes you move.” – Rumi
“I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.” – Rumi
“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’d ever imagined.” – Rumi
“You have within you more love than you could ever understand.” – Rumi
“This is the essence of all sciences – that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.” – Rumi
“Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.” – Rumi
“On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.” – Rumi
“If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.” – Rumi
“When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.” – Rumi
“With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.” – Rumi
“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.” – Rumi
“With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.” – Rumi
“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.” – Rumi
“I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: ‘You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'” – Rumi
“Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.” – Rumi
“The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.” – Rumi
“The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.” – Rumi
“You have forgotten the One who doesn’t care about ownership, who doesn’t try to turn a profit from every human exchange.” – Rumi
“Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.” – Rumi
“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.” – Rumi
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.” – Rumi
“Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are.” – Rumi
“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.” – Rumi
“Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.” – Rumi
“Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.” – Rumi
“Why are you knocking at every door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.” – Rumi
“There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.” – Rumi
“Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.” – Rumi
“When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.” – Rumi
“Don’t dismiss the heart, even if it’s filled with sorrow. God’s treasures are buried in broken hearts.” – Rumi
“Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?” – Rumi
“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.” – Rumi
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