Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.

Rumi

I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.

Rumi

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

Rumi

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

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

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

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

Rumi

The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before.

Rumi

If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.

Rumi

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

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

I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.

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

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.

Rumi

Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.

Rumi

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

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

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

Rumi

Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.

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

Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.

Rumi

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

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

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.

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

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

Tony Blair

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

Sinead O'Connor

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Simone Weil

There are only two sorts of greatness: true greatness, which is of a spiritual order, and the old, old lie of world conquest. Conquest is an ersatz greatness.

Simone Weil

It is only by entering the transcendental, the supernatural, the authentically spiritual order that man rises above the social. Until then, whatever he may do, the social is transcendent in relation to him.

Simone Weil

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Simone Weil

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.