Quotes by Rumi

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

From "Wetness and Water"How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try to put out a fireby throwing on more fire. Do not wash a wound with blood.No matter how fast you run,your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes it

The same wind that uproots treesmakes the grass shine.The lordly wind loves the weaknessand 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

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 closingof 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.

You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership,who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange.

Give your weakness to one who helps.

You think of yourselfas a citizen of the universe.You think you belongto this world of dust and matter.Out of this dustyou have created a personal image,and have forgottenabout the essence of your true origin

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.

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.

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.

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

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.

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.

Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?

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?

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

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

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.

Do you know what you are?You are a manuscript of 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.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo nourish you.

Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

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

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.

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.

Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?

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

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.

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

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.

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.

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.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoingand rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.

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.

Go on! Go on! Move forward.

When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about ideas, language, even the phrase each other.

Let yourself be loved.

In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

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

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

When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.

When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

Do not be content with the surface of things. Inwardness is everything.

Be drunk with love, for love is all that exists.

Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.

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

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real.

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

Why are you so busy with this or that or good or bad, pay attention to how things blend.

Knock, And He'll open the door. Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun.

If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home.

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

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

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

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

I am yours. Don't give myself back to me.

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems.

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

Let yourself become living poetry.

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

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

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.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

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

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

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

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Let gratitude be the pillow you sleep on.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strongest pull of your soul.

Let the tenderness of your heart become so great that they cannot break it.

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There is no joy but in the effort and your creation.

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

What you seek is seeking you.

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

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire

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

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

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