Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

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

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

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

Rumi

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

Rumi

If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home.

Rumi

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

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

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

Rumi

Oh Soul! You worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.

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

You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.

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

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

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

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

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

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

Rumi

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.

Rumi

In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.

Rumi

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

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 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.

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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.