Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.

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

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

Rumi

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

Rumi

My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.

Rumi

I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty.

Rumi

The Beloved is with you in the midst of your seeking! He holds your hand wherever you wander.

Rumi

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

Rumi

We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

Rumi

Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.

Rumi

If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.

Rumi

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

Rumi

The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.

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

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

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

The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.

Rumi

No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

Rumi

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

Rumi

Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.

Rumi

You think the shadow is the substance.

Rumi

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

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

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

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 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

There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.

Rumi

There are no edges to my loving now.

Rumi

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

Rumi

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

Rumi

Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.

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

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?