Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.

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

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.

Ron Rubin

Work and life are an interconnected adventure, guided by the heart, winged with spirit, and nourished by the soul.

Ron Perlman

I'm not religious, but I am spiritual. I have my own relationship with a being that I consider to be everywhere. All and everything. I don't need a church or a synagogue or a mosque. I don't need to kneel down, I don't need to stand up, I don't need to be hanging from a thread.

Ron Perlman

I've always felt there were aspects of me that were monstrous, and you can either hide from it or confront it, embrace it and understand that those are aspects that make you unique and define you and motivate you. You can either overwhelm or overcompensate for them -- but they truly define you as a human being...So that life became a question of either dealing with this monstrousness in one way or another...One finds a way to understand and make friends with that monster and understand that that's the very thing that makes you who you are. That's your emotional and spiritual fingerprint.

Susan Orlean

You have to appreciate the spiritual component of having an opportunity to do something as wondrous as writing. You should be practical and smart and you should have a good agent and you should work really, really hard. But you should also be filled with awe and gratitude about this amazing way to be in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.