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Maulana Jalal-ud-din Rumi Famous Quotes

Maulana Rumi
Enough of these phrases,
Conceit and metaphors,
I want burning, burning, burning.
Rumi

My heart,
so precious,
I won’t trade for a hundred thousand souls.
Your one smile takes it for free
Rumi

Longing is the core of mystery.
Longing itself brings the cure.
The only rule is, Suffer the pain.
Your desire must be disciplined,
and what you want to happen
in time, sacrificed.
Rumi – The Essential Rumi – Coleman Barks
~~

Suddenly a Star appeared
clear and bright
and a thousand suns vanished
in that Star’s Light
Rumi
*****

Inside this new love, die.
Your way begins on the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
You’re covered with a thick cloud.
Slide out the side. Die,
and be quiet. Quiteness 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 – The Essential Rumi – Coleman Barks
~~

Everyone is overridden by thoughts;
that’s why they have so much heartache and sorrow.
At times I give myself up to thought purposefully;
but when I choose,
I spring up from those under its sway.
I am like a high-flying bird,
and thought is a gnat:
how should a gnat overpower me?
Rumi – Mathnawi II, 3559-3561 – ‘Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance’ – Camille and Kabir Helminski
~~

The Morning Wind Spreads
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 – ‘The Essential Rumi’ – Coleman Barks
~~

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 – Mathnawi I, 1779-1794 – The Rumi Collection – Kabir Helminski
I wonder
from these thousand of “me’s”,
which one am I?

Last year I drank wine.
I’m still intoxicated.
Last year I touched fire.
my flesh is still burning.
Thirst drove me to water.
In it, I saw the moon.
I am a lion loving the moon.
seeking moonlight.
Don’t ask about my pain.
the color of my face is your answer.
My soul is drunk.
My body is in ruin.
is a drunkard sitting in a rack.
My heart is an ass mired in mud.
Just this once, don’t despair! Listen.
Hear God’s blessings calling.
………


 “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


 “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi


 “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

 “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

 “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 Illuminated Rumi

 “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
― Rumi

 “What you seek is seeking you.”
― Rumi

 “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

 “When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”
― Rumi

 “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
― Rumi

 “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― 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

 “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
― 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

 “My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
― Rumi

 “Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
― 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

 “I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come 'round the corner.

Sense your scent when I come
into a room you've just left.

Know the lift of your heel,
the glide of your foot.

Become familiar with the way
you purse your lips
then let them part,
just the slightest bit,
when I lean in to your space
and kiss you.

I want to know the joy
of how you whisper
"more”
― Rumi

 “Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
― Rumi

 “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
― 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

 “silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi

 “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
― Rumi

 “Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi

 “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
― 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

 “And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens with love like that.
It lights up the sky.”
― Rumi

 “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
― Rumi, Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi

 “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
― Rumi

 “Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
― Rumi

 “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
― Rumi

 “People want you to be happy.
Don't keep serving them your pain!

If you could untie your wings
and free your soul of jealousy,

you and everyone around you
would fly up like doves.”
― Rumi

 “Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.”
― Rumi

 “Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

 “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
― Rumi

 “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
― 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

 “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

 “Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
― Rumi,

 “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

 “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
― Rumi

 “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
― 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

 “But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.”
― Rumi

 “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
― Rumi

 “Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
― 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

 “Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”
― Rumi

 “A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.”
― Rumi

 “An eye is meant to see things.
The soul is here for its own joy.

A head has one use: For loving a true love.
Feet: To chase after.

Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,
for learning what men have done and tried to do.

Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind
when it only wants to see why.

A lover is always accused of something.
But when he finds his love, whatever was lost
in the looking comes back completely changed.”
― Rumi, Night and Sleep


…………
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.”
― Rumi


 “Beauty surrounds us.”
― Rumi


 “Be like melting snow -- wash yourself of yourself.”
― Rumi


 “You try to be faithful
And sometimes you're cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Without you, I can't cope.

And when you take the lead,
I become your footstep.
Your absence leaves a void.
Without you, I can't cope.

You have disturbed my sleep,
You have wrecked my image.
You have set me apart.
Without you, I can't cope.”
― Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi


 “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
― Rumi


 “Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
― 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


 “I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
― Rumi

 “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi


 “You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck!”
― Rumi


 “In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”
― 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


 “The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don't go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep!
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
The door is round and open
Don't go back to sleep!”
― Rumi


 “Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.”
― Rumi


 “Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”
― Rumi


 “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
― Rumi


 “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
― Rumi


 “Within tears, find hidden laughter
Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. ”
― Rumi


 “Here is a relationship booster
that is guaranteed to
work:

Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid
make your eyes light up as if you
just heard something
brilliant.”
― Rumi


 “They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?”
― Rumi


 “At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door
and open the love-window.
The moon won't use the door,
only the window.”
― Rumi, A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings


 “Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”
― Rumi, Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi


 “Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall and falling,
they're given wings.”
― Rumi


 “All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”
― Rumi


 “Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged”
― Rumi


 “You are a volume in the divine book
A mirror to the power that created the universe
Whatever you want, ask it of yourself
Whatever you’re looking for can only be found
Inside of you”
― Rumi, The Rubais of Rumi: Insane with Love


 “Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. ”
― Rumi, Essential Rumi


 “Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?”
― Rumi


 “My lips got lost on the way to the kiss -
that's how drunk I
was.”
― Rumi


 “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”
― Rumi


 “For ages you have come and gone
courting this delusion.
For ages you have run from the pain
and forfeited the ecstasy.
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.

Although you appear in earthly form
Your essence is pure Consciousness.
You are the fearless guardian
of Divine Light.
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.

When you lose all sense of self
the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish.
Lose yourself completely,
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.

You descended from Adam, by the pure Word of God,
but you turned your sight
to the empty show of this world.
Alas, how can you be satisfied with so little?
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.

Why are you so enchanted by this world
when a mine of gold lies within you?
Open your eyes and come ---
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.

You were born from the rays of God's Majesty
when the stars were in their perfect place.
How long will you suffer from the blows
of a nonexistent hand?
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.

You are a ruby encased in granite.
How long will you decieve Us with this outer show?
O friend, We can see the truth in your eyes!
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.

After one moment with that glorious Friend
you became loving, radiant, and ecstatic.
Your eyes were sweet and full of fire.
Come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.

Shams-e Tabriz, the King of the Tavern
has handed you an eternal cup,
And God in all His glory is pouring the wine.
So come! Drink!
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.

Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That.
Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.
The road that leads to the City is endless;
Go without head and feet
and you'll already be there.
What else could you be? - you are That.”
― Rumi


 “When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at the giver.”
― Rumi, The Masnavi: Book Two


 “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
― Rumi


 “Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight is blind
and try to see a treasure in everyone.”
― Rumi


 “Like This

If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting
will look, lift your face
and say,

Like this.

When someone mentions the gracefulness
of the nightsky, climb up on the roof
and dance and say,

Like this.

If anyone wants to know what "spirit" is,
or what "God’s fragrance" means,
lean your head toward him or her.
Keep your face there close.

Like this.

When someone quotes the old poetic image
about clouds gradually uncovering the moon,
slowly loosen knot by knot the strings
of your robe.

Like this.

If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead,
don’t try to explain the miracle.
Kiss me on the lips.

Like this. Like this.

When someone asks what it means
to "die for love," point
here.
If someone asks how tall I am, frown
and measure with your fingers the space
between the creases on your forehead.

This tall.

The soul sometimes leaves the body, the returns.
When someone doesn’t believe that,
walk back into my house.

Like this.

When lovers moan,
they’re telling our story.

Like this.

I am a sky where spirits live.
Stare into this deepening blue,
while the breeze says a secret.

Like this.

When someone asks what there is to do,
light the candle in his hand.

Like this.

How did Joseph’s scent come to Jacob?
Huuuuu.

How did Jacob’s sight return?
Huuuu.

A little wind cleans the eyes.

Like this.
When Shams comes back from Tabriz,
he’ll put just his head around the edge
of the door to surprise us

Like this.”
― Rumi


 “The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night....”
― Rumi


 “Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.”
― Rumi


 “You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.”
― Rumi


 “Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies...”
― Rumi


 “Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!”
― Rumi


 “There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.

The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi


 “Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”
― Rumi, Essential Rumi


 “The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”
― 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, Essential 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


 “There are lovers content with longing.
I’m not one of them.”
― Rumi


 “I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.

The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star.”
― Rumi


 “The cure for pain is in the pain.”
― Rumi


 “When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.”
― Rumi


 “Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.”
― Rumi


 “The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.”
― Rumi


 “When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.”
― Rumi

 “Keep walking, though there's no place to get to.
Don't try to see through the distances.
That's not for human beings. Move within,
But don't move the way fear makes you move.”
― Rumi

 “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.”
― Rumi

 “The universe and the light of the stars come through me.”
― Rumi

 “Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart.

A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.”
― Rumi

 “Give your weakness to one who helps.”
― Rumi


 “Put your thoughts to sleep,
do not let them cast a shadow
over the moon of your heart.
Let go of thinking.”
― Rumi

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


 “Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.”
― Rumi, Essential Rumi


 “You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion”
― Rumi,

 “I, you, he, she, we
In the garden of mystic lovers,
these are not true distinctions.”
― Rumi

 “This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.”
― Rumi

 “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
― Rumi

 “You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?”
― 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


 “Love calls - everywhere and always.
We're sky bound.
Are you coming?”
― Rumi


 “The way of love is not
a subtle argument.

The door there
is devastation.

Birds make great sky-circles
of their freedom.
How do they learn it?

They fall, and falling,
they're given wings.”
― Rumi


 “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

 “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


 “Love is the cure,
for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain
until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.”
― Rumi


 “If the wine drinker
has a deep gentleness in him,
he will show that when drunk.
But if he has hidden anger and arrogance,
those appear.”
― Rumi


 “I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.”
― Rumi


 “A Thirsty Fish

I don't get tired of you. Don't grow weary
of being compassionate toward me!

All this thirst equipment
must surely be tired of me,
the waterjar, the water carrier.

I have a thirsty fish in me
that can never find enough
of what it's thirsty for!

Show me the way to the ocean!
Break these half-measures,
these small containers.

All this fantasy
and grief.

Let my house be drowned in the wave
that rose last night in the courtyard
hidden in the center of my chest.

Joseph fell like the moon into my well.
The harvest I expected was washed away.
But no matter.

A fire has risen above my tombstone hat.
I don't want learning, or dignity,
or respectability.

I want this music and this dawn
and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

The grief-armies assemble,
but I'm not going with them.

This is how it always is
when I finish a poem.

A great silence comes over me,
and I wonder why I ever thought
to use language.”
― Rumi


 “For without you, I swear, the town
Has become like a prison to me.
Distraction and the mountain
And the desert, all I desire.”
― Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi


 “The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.”
― Rumi


 “Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me, do not grow,
Oh time, without me, do not go.

...Oh, you cannot go, without me.”
― Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of 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. 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


 “In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.”
― Rumi


 “Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;
For I am like the Moon,
you will see me with new face everyday.”
― 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, Essential 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 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.”
― Rumi


 “Since Love has made ruins of my heart
The sun must come and illumine them.
Such generosity has broken me with shame.”
― Rumi


 “Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
― Rumi


 “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
― Rumi


 “Love so needs to love
that it will endure almost anything, even abuse,
just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind,
its song will never hurt you, for I
sing those words.”
― Rumi


 “If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.”
― Rumi,  

“Do not leave me,
hide in my heart like a secret,
wind around my head like a turban.
"I come and go as I please,"
you say, "swift as a heartbeat."
You can tease me as much as you like
but never leave me.”
― Rumi


 “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, The Essential Rumi


 “You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean”
― Rumi


 “You are so weak. Give up to grace.
The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.
You need more help than you know.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi


 “Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face,
for i see you there,
my dear.”
― Rumi


 “I am weary of personal worrying,
in love with the art of madness.”
― Rumi


 “Poems are rough notations for the music we are.”
― Rumi


 “I searched for God among the Christians and on the Cross and therein I found Him not.
I went into the ancient temples of idolatry; no trace of Him was there.
I entered the mountain cave of Hira and then went as far as Qandhar but God I found not.
With set purpose I fared to the summit of Mount Caucasus and found there only 'anqa's habitation.
Then I directed my search to the Kaaba, the resort of old and young; God was not there even.
Turning to philosophy I inquired about him from ibn Sina but found Him not within his range.
I fared then to the scene of the Prophet's experience of a great divine manifestation only a "two bow-lengths' distance from him" but God was not there even in that exalted court.
Finally, I looked into my own heart and there I saw Him; He was nowhere else.”
― Rumi


 “To live without you
is to be robbed of love
and what is life without it?
To live without you
is death to me, my love
but some call it life.”
― Rumi


 “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
― Rumi, Essential Rumi


 “Nothing can help me but that beauty.
There was a dawn I remember
when my soul heard something from your soul.

I drank water from your spring
and felt the current take me.”
― Rumi


 “Keep on knocking
'til the joy inside
opens a window
look to see who's there”
― Rumi


 “Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”
― Rumi, Essential Rumi


 “What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.
I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian nor Muslim,
I am not from east or west, not from land or sea,
not from the shafts of nature nor from the spheres of the firmament,
not of the earth, not of water, not of air, not of fire.
I am not from the highest heaven, not from this world,
not from existence, not from being.
I am not from India, not from China, not from Bulgar, not from Saqsin,
not from the realm of the two Iraqs, not from the land of Khurasan.
I am not from the world, not from beyond,
not from heaven and not from hell.
I am not from Adam, not from Eve, not from paradise and not from Ridwan.
My place is placeless, my trace is traceless,
no body, no soul, I am from the soul of souls.
I have chased out duality, lived the two worlds as one.
One I seek, one I know, one I see, one I call.
He is the first, he is the last, he is the outer, he is the inner.
Beyond He and He is I know no other.
I am drunk from the cup of love, the two worlds have escaped me.
I have no concern but carouse and rapture.
If one day in my life I spend a moment without you
from that hour and that time I would repent my life.
If one day I am given a moment in solitude with you
I will trample the two worlds underfoot and dance forever.
O Sun of Tabriz, I am so tipsy here in this world,
I have no tale to tell but tipsiness and rapture.”
― Rumi


 “Some nights stay up till dawn,
as the moon sometimes does for the sun.
Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way
of a well, then lifted out into light.”
― Rumi


 “Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.”
― Rumi


 “Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast!
For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.”
― Rumi


 “No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower.
So the nightbirds will start singing.”
― Rumi, Night and Sleep


 “In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances”
― Rumi

 “A strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky.
Every part of me goes in different directions.
Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere?”
― Rumi

 “My friend, you thought you lost Him;
that all your life you've been separated from Him.
Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him,
and haven't searched within your own house.”
― Rumi


 “You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door
is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep.”
― Rumi


 “All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,
And I intend to end up there.

This drunkenness began in some other tavern.
When I get back around to that place,
I'll be completely sober. Meanwhile,
I'm like a bird from another continent, sitting in this aviary.
The day is coming when I fly off,
But who is it now in my ear who hears my voice?
Who says words with my mouth?

Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.
I don't plan it.
When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

We have a huge barrel of wine, but no cups.
That's fine with us. Every morning
We glow and in the evening we glow again.”
― Rumi


 “You think you are alive
because you breathe air?
Shame on you,
that you are alive in such a limited way.
Don't be without Love,
so you won't feel dead.
Die in Love
and stay alive forever.”
― Rumi


 “I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing”
― Rumi

 “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.”
― Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi


 “Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.”
― Rumi,  

 “Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.”
― Rumi

 “beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I'll meet you there”
― Rumi


 “Into this new love, die
your way begins
on the other side
become the sky
take an axe to the prison wall,
escape
walk out like someone
suddenly born into color
do it now”
― 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, The Essential Rumi

 “let's get away from
all the clever humans
who put words in our mouth
let's only say what our hearts desire.”
― Rumi

 “I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
― Rumi


 “Whoever finds love
beneath hurt and grief
disappears into emptiness
with a thousand new disguises”
― Rumi

 “The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.”
― Rumi

 “Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“
so your life will stay fresh.”
― Rumi


 “The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire.
Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,
but its smoke becomes visible in the end. ”
― Rumi


 “Look past your thoughts, so you may
drink the pure nectar of This Moment.”
― 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


 “That moon which the sky never saw
even in dreams
has risen again”
― Rumi


 “My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ;
'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved.
I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one;
One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call. ”
― Rumi


 “Let silence take you to the core of life.”
― Rumi


 “Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself”
― Rumi


 “Shine like the whole universe is yours.”
― Rumi

 “God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.
Each note is a need coming through one of us,
a passion, a longing pain.
Remember the lips
where the wind-breath originated,
and let your note be clear.
Don't try to end it.
Be your note.”
― Rumi


 “Because I cannot sleep i make music in the night”
― Rumi

 “Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.”
― Rumi


 “We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.”
― Rumi

 “Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.”
― Rumi


 “You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this world of dust and matter.
Out of this dust
you have created a personal image,
and have forgotten
about the essence of your true origin”
― Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi


 “Stars burn clear
all night till dawn.

Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.”
― Rumi

 “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart”
― 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

 “Hear this if you can:
If you want to reach him
You have to go beyond yourself
And when you finally arrive at the land of absence
Be silent
Don’t say a thing
Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there”
― Rumi, The Rubais of Rumi: Insane with Love

 “The same wind that uproots trees
makes the grass shine.

The lordly wind loves the weakness
and the lowness of grasses.
Never brag of being strong.

The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are.
It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves.
It leaves the leaves alone.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi


 “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
― Rumi

 “At the end of my life, with just one breath left,
if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.”
― Rumi

 “Darkness may hide the trees
and the flowers from the eyes
but it cannot hide
love from the soul.”
― Rumi


 “If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.”
― Rumi


 “This that is tormented and very tired,
tortured with restraints like a madman,
this heart.”
― Rumi



 “You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.”
― Rumi

 “Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
― Rumi


 “The soul is here for its own joy.”
― Rumi

 “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 roads to the shore.”
― Rumi

 “How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.”
― Rumi


 “I would love to kiss you.
The price of kissing is your life.”
― Rumi

 “We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.”
― Rumi


 “This is how I would die
into the love I have for you:
As pieces of cloud
dissolve in sunlight.”
― Rumi


 “There are thousands of wines
that can take over our minds.

Don't think all ecstasies
are the same!

Jesus was lost in his love for God.
His donkey was drunk with barley.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

 “You're water. We're the millstone.
You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.
You're spirit. We're the opening and closing
of our hands. You're the clarity.
We're the language that tries to say it.
You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi


 “Sadness to me is the happiest time,
When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind.
Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth,
The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.”
― Rumi

 “When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off;
you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy.
…People fancy they are enjoying themselves,
but they are really tearing out their wings
for the sake of an illusion.”
― Rumi


 “Work on your strong qualities
and become resplendent like the ruby.
Practice self-denial and accept difficulty.
Always see infinite life in letting the self die.
Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow.
The signs of self-existence will leave your body,
and ecstasy will take you over.”
― Rumi

 “Bring the pure wine of
love and freedom.
But sir, a tornado is coming.
More wine, we'll teach this storm
A thing or two about whirling.”
― Rumi

 “Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?”
― Rumi

 “The Prophets accept all agony and trust it
For the water has never feared the fire.”
― Rumi

 “The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages;
the eye has already made love with what it sees.

The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape:
the ear hears words that talk about all this.

When hearing takes place, character areas change;
but when you see, inner areas change.

If all you know about fire is what you have heard
see if the fire will agree to cook you!

Certain energies come only when you burn.
If you long for belief, sit down in the fire!

When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye.
But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.”
― Rumi, Night and Sleep

 “Without you the instruments would die.
One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss.
The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself.

Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone,
that what died last night can be whole today.

Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out?
I won't do it.

Either give me enough wine or leave me alone,
now that I know how it is
to be with you in constant conversation.”
― Rumi, Night and Sleep


 “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
― Rumi


 “The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.”
― Rumi

 “This mirror inside me shows.
I can’t say what, but I can’t not know.
I run from body. I run from spirit.
I do not belong anywhere.”
― 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”
― Rumi

 “Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one who becomes a servant of lovers
is really a fortunate sovereign.
Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love.
Love is a cloud that scatters pearls.”
― Rumi


 “Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
― Rumi

 “O my choice beauty
You've gone
But your love remains in my heart
Your image in my eye
O guide on my winding road
I keep turning round and round in the hopes of
Finding you”
― Rumi, The Rubais of Rumi: Insane with Love

 “We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.”
― Rumi

 “I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.”
― Rumi

 “make your last journey
from this strange world
soar for the heights
where there is no more
separation of you and your home

God has created
your wings not to be dormant
as long as you are alive
you must try more and more
to use your wings to show you're alive”
― Rumi

 “The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.”

“In prayer all are equal.”
― Rumi


 “In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improves."

"You suppose you are the trouble
But you are the cure
You suppose that you are the lock on the door
But you are the key that opens it
It's too bad that you want to be someone else
You don't see your own face, your own beauty
Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours."

"Only from the heart Can you touch the sky."

"People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another."

"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

 “Don’t wait any longer.
Dive in the ocean,
Leave and let the sea be you.”
― Rumi

 “You are an ocean in a drop of dew,
all the universes in a thin sack of blood.

What are these pleasures then,
these joys, these worlds
that you keep reaching for,
hoping they will make you more alive?”
― Rumi

 “We were green: we ripened and grew golden.
The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown.
Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings.
We started sober: are love's startled drunkards.

You hide me in your cloak of nothingness
Reflect my ghost in your glass of being
I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream
Where your eternity briefly trembles.”
― Rumi

 “Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don't be afraid to use one.”
― Rumi

 “Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.”
― Rumi

 “And watch two men washing clothes,
one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony.

Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.”
― Rumi

 “Love Dogs

One night a man was crying,
Allah! Allah!
His lips grew sweet with the praising,
until a cynic said,
"So! I have heard you
calling out, but have you ever
gotten any response?"

The man had no answer to that.
He quit praying and fell into a confused sleep.

He dreamed he saw Khidr, the guide of souls,
in a thick, green foliage.
"Why did you stop praising?"
"Because I've never heard anything back."
"This longing
you express is the return message."

The grief you cry out from
draws you toward union.

Your pure sadness
that wants help
is the secret cup.

Listen to the moan of a dog for its master.
That whining is the connection.

There are love dogs
no one knows the names of.

Give your life
to be one of them.”
― 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

 “Bitter your acts, bitter am I,
Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,
Pleasant and gentle, so you are,
Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.”
― Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi

 “You are the drop,and the ocean
you are kindness,you are anger,
you are sweetness,you are poison.
Do not make me more disheartened.

you are the chamber of the sun,
you are the abode of venus,
you are the garden of all hope.
Oh, Beloved, let me enter.”
― Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi

 “The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.”
― Rumi


 “For the thirst to possess your love,
Is worth my blood a hundred times.”
― Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi

 “There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved.
And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?'
The lover replied, 'It is I.'
'Go hence,' returned the voice;
'there is no room within for thee and me.'
Then came the lover a second time and knocked and again the voice demanded,
'Who is there?'
He answered, 'It is thou.'
'Enter,' said the voice, 'for I am within.”
― Rumi

 “Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body,
Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.”
― Rumi, The Masnavi, Book One

 “I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.”
― Rumi, The Quatrains of Rumi: Complete Translation with Persian Text, Islamic Mystical Commentary, Manual of Terms, and Concordance

 “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
― Rumi

 “Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love.
We are running to contemplate its vast green field.
Do you want to come with us?”
― Rumi, Call to Love: In the Rose Garden with Rumi


 “Go back,
go back to sleep.

Yes, you are allowed.
You who have no Love in your heart,
you can go back to sleep.

The power of Love
is exclusive to us,
you can go back to sleep.

I have been burnt
by the fire of Love.
You who have no such yearning in your heart,
go back to sleep.

The path of Love,
has seventy-two folds and countless facets.
Your love and religion
is all about deceit, control and hypocrisy,
go back to sleep.

I have torn to pieces my robe of speech,
and have let go of the desire to converse.
You who are not naked yet,
you can go back to sleep.”
― Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi

 “I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey…
Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul…
Love says, “You are right,
but don’t claim these changes.
Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.”
― Rumi

 “Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.”
― Rumi

 “Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

 “Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret,
and in exchange gain the Ocean.
Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor,
and in the arms of the Sea be secure.
Who indeed should be so fortunate?
An Ocean wooing a drop!
In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once!
Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.”
― Rumi

 “And patience flees my heart,
And reason flees my mind.
Oh, how drunk can I get to be,
Without your love's security?”
― Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi

 “Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.”
― Rumi

 “You had better run from me. My words are fire.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

 “I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.”
― Rumi

 “Be helpless, dumbfounded,
Unable to say yes or no.
Then a stretcher will come from grace
to gather us up.

We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty.
If we say we can, we’re lying.
If we say No, we don’t see it,
That No will behead us
And shut tight our window onto spirit.

So let us rather not be sure of anything,
Beside ourselves, and only that, so
Miraculous beings come running to help.
Crazed, lying in a zero circle, mute,
We shall be saying finally,
With tremendous eloquence, Lead us.
When we have totally surrendered to that beauty,
We shall be a mighty kindness.”
― Rumi


 “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


 “Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.”
― Rumi

 “Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”
― Rumi

 “There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows.
In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.”
― Rumi

 “Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.”
― Rumi

 “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

 “What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself,
by saying implicitly,
My eyes are clear."

Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing
himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well
with my eyes so inflamed.”
― Rumi

 “O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now,

Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance,
Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.”
― Rumi

 “We gather at night to celebrate
being human. Sometimes we call out low
to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea,
but the sea does not get smaller! We
eat the clouds and evening light. We
are slaves tasting the royal wine.”
― 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

 “The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.”
― Rumi

 “Knowledge that is acquired
is not like this. Those who have it worry if
audiences like it or not.
It's a bait for popularity.
Disputational knowing wants customers.
It has no soul...
The only real customer is God.
Chew quietly
your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay
playfully childish.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

 “Drumsound rises on the air,
its throb, my heart.

A voice inside the beat says,
'I know you're tired,
but come. This is the way.”
― Rumi, Essential Rumi

 “Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven.
It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety. ”
― Rumi


 “Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love
Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.”
― Rumi

 “When soul rises
Into lips
You feel the kiss
You have wanted”
― Rumi

 “There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!”
― Rumi

 “Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love”
― Rumi

 “Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.”
― Rumi

 “God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.”
― Rumi

 “I am so close, I may look distant.
So completely mixed with you, I may look separate.
So out in the open, I appear hidden.
So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.”
― Rumi

 “I cannot sleep in your presence
In your absence, tears prevent me
you watch me my beloved
on each sleepiness night and
Only you see the difference”
― Rumi

 “What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.”
― Rumi, Essential Rumi

 “I see my beauty in you.”
― Rumi

 “Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.”
― Rumi

 “Be a helpful friend,
and you will become a green tree
with always new fruit,
always deeper journeys into love.”
― Rumi, Bridge to the Soul: Journeys Into the Music and Silence of the Heart

 “Love asks us to enjoy our life
For nothing good can come of death.
Who is alive? I ask.
Those who are born of love.

Seek us in love itself,
Seek love in us ourselves.
Sometimes I venerate love,
Sometimes it venerates me.”
― Rumi, Love: The Joy That Wounds: The Love Poems of Rumi

 “You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do, and that
sight becomes this art.”
― Rumi

 “Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.”
― Rumi

 “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
― Rumi

 “When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish.
Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.”
― Rumi

 “God has allowed some magical reversal to occur,
so that you see the scorpion pit
as an object of desire,
and all the beautiful expanse around it
as dangerous and swarming with snakes.”
― Rumi

 “I've come to take you with me
even if I must drag you along
But first I must steal your heart
then settle you in my soul.

I've come as a spring
to lay beside your blossoms
To feel the glory of happiness
and spread your flowers around

I've come to show you off
as the adornment in my house
and elevate you to the heavens
as the prayers of those in love.

I've come to take back
the kiss you once stole
Either return it with grace
or i must take it by force

You're my life
You're my soul
Please be my last prayer
My heart must hold you forever

From the lowly earth
to the high human soul
There are a lot more
than a thousand stages

Since I've taken you along
from town to town
no way will I abandon
you halfway down this road

Though you're in my hands
Though i can throw you around
like a child and a ball
I'll always need to chase after you”
― Rumi

 “Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen!”
― Rumi, Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey

 “Love is a river. Drink from it.”
― Rumi

 “Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight, a lonely hiddenness. Other pleasure gathers a crowd, starts a fight, lots of noise there. But soul beauty stays quiet..his amazing whereabouts unknown inside my heart.”
― Rumi

 “Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.”
― 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

 “She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

 “Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.”
― Rumi


 “Some Hindus have an elephant to show.
No one here has ever seen an elephant.
They bring it at night to a dark room.

One by one, we go in the dark and come out
saying how we experience the animal.
One of us happens to touch the trunk.
A water-pipe kind of creature.

Another, the ear. A strong, always moving
back and forth, fan-animal. Another, the leg.
I find it still, like a column on a temple.

Another touches the curve back.
A leathery throne. Another, the cleverest,
feels the tusk. A rounded sword made of porcelain.
He is proud of his description.

Each of us touches one place
and understands the whole in that way.
The palm and the fingers feeling in the dark
are how the senses explore the reality of the elephant.

If each of us held a candle there,
and if we went in together, we could see it.”
― Rumi, A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings

 “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

 “To Love is to be God.
Never will a Lover's chest
feel any sorrow.
Never will a Lover's robe
be touched by mortals.
Never will a Lover's body
be found buried in the earth.
To Love is to be God.”
― Rumi

 “Tuhan Mengguyuri hati dengan darah dan air mata sebelum mengukir segala rahasiaNya di sana...”
― Rumi

 “I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as a plant and rose to animal,
I died as an animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”
― Rumi

 “It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.”
― Rumi

 “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, The Love Poems of Rumi

 “Speak a new language
so that the world
will be a new world.”
― Rumi

 “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, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

 “I'm in love!
Your advice, what are they?
Love has poisoned me!
Your remedies, what are they?
I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!"
But if my heart that has gone mad!
Those strings on my feet
What is the point?”
― Rumi

 “Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl”
― Rumi

 “Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”
― Rumi

 “The middle path is the way to wisdom”
― Rumi

 “Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make sense any more.”
― Rumi

 “There is some kiss we want with
our whole lives, the touch of
spirit on the body. Seawater
begs the pearl to break its shell.
and the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild darling! At
night, I open the window and ask
the moon to come and press its
face against mine. Breathe into
me. Close the language door and
open the lovers window. The moon
won’t use the door, only the window.”
― Rumi


 “You are my shams.”
― Rumi

 “Dance until you shatter yourself.”
― Rumi

 “Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.”
― Rumi

 “As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.”
― Rumi

 “Your longing for ME is my message to you,
All your attempts to reach ME,
Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.”
― Rumi

 “Every story is us”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

 “If we come to sleep
we are His drowsy ones
And if we come to wake
we are in His hands

If we come to weeping
we are His cloud full of raindrops
And if we come to laughing
we are His lightning in that moment

If we come to anger and battle
it is the reflection of His wrath
And if we come to peace and pardon
it is the reflection of His love

Who are we in this complicated world?”
― 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, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

 “If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

 “I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns.”
― Rumi

 “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

 “...the way you make love is the way God will be with you.”
― Rumi

 “I am smiling at myself today
There's no wish left in this heart
Or perhaps there is no heart left
Free from all desire
I sit quietly like Earth
My silent cry echoes like thunder
Throughout the universe
I am not worried about it
I know it will be heard by no one
Except me.”
― Rumi

 “if i can only recount
the story of my life
right out of my body
flames will grow”
― Rumi

 “Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.”
― Rumi

 “There are no edges to my loving now.”
― 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 said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.”
She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.”
― Rumi

 “Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.”
― 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.
In the end, to take a step without feet;
to regard this world as invisible,
and to disregard what appears to be the self.

Heart, I said, what a gift it has been
to enter this circle of lovers,
to see beyond seeing itself,
to reach and feel within the breast.”
― Rumi

 “If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.”
― Rumi

 “Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.”
― Rumi, Night and Sleep

 “If you are seeking, seek us with joy
For we live in the kingdom of joy.
Do not give your heart to anything else
But to the love of those who are clear joy,
Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.
For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –
Do not go in the direction of darkness –
I tell you: suns exist.”
― Rumi

 “Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.”
― Rumi

 “A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

 “When the rose is gone and the garden faded
you will no longer hear the nightingale's song.
The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil.
The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing.
If love withholds its strengthening care,
the lover is left like a bird without care,
the lover is left like a bird without wings.
How will I be awake and aware
if the light of the Beloved is absent?
Love wills that this Word be brought forth.”
― Rumi, Teachings of 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

 “As for us, He has appointed the job of permanent unemployment.

If he wanted us to work, after all,
He would not have created this wine.

With a skinfull of this, Sir,
would you rush out to commit economics?”
― Rumi

 “With passion pray.

With passion make love.

With passion eat and drink and dance and play.

Why look like a dead fish

in this ocean of God?”
― Rumi