Rumi quotes

Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.

I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want that love that will raise the dead. I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. I want that love that is the silence of eternity.

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.

The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.

Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.

In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.

You show your worth by what you seek.

I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn't find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was.

In Silence there is eloquence.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life.

Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I'll meet you there

Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?

Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; Love tells us we are. My life flows between the two.

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.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming

I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case... HEART might stop. MIND can forget. I Love them with my Soul. SOUL never stops or forgets.

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.

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!

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

Because of your love I have broken with my past

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.

Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.

Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments.

Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't plant anything but Love.

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. 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.

The one who has a good friend doesn't need any mirror.

What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.

Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

The Inspiration You Seek Is Already Within You. Be Silent And Listen.

Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.

Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.

When love is not accepted move on; when love is not appreciated walk away; hopefully time will teach what real, true love is.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.

What you are seeking is also seeking you.

Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.

All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light.

Lovely days don’t come to you, you should walk to them.

If you look too closely at the form, you miss the Essence.

Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.

I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
 your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
 yet you worry what people are saying.

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.

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

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.

Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Be suspicious of what you want.

There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.

Silence gives answers.

Do not look back, No one knows how the world ever began. Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever. If you dwell on the past or future, You will miss the moment.

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.

The quieter we become, the more we can hear.

The world is nothing but a moment.

Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.

You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it.

Finding faults is for those with tired minds.

I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!

Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.

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.

You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.

A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man.

Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I.

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.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

When you notice a fault in your neighbour, search for the same in yourself.

To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep it burning. I said: what about my heart? God said: Tell me what you hold inside it? I said: pain and sorrow? He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

There is nothing outside of yourself, look within. Everything you want is there. You are That.

The mind says there is nothing beyond the physical world; the HEART says there is, and I've been there many times.

If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.

Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.

Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!

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.

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

Whatever you are looking for can only be found inside of you.

A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle.

Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love.

Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.

The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites

The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence.

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.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

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

Don't you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.

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.

Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.

Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.

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. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself

When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home

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

You are more valuable than both heaven and earth. What else can I say? You don’t know your own worth.

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

Every forest branch moves differently in the breeze, but as they sway they connect at the roots.

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.