All Quotes by Rumi
“May these vows and this marriage be blessed.”
“The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.”
“Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.”
“We are born of love; Love is our mother.”
“Every object, every being,”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing”
“Lovers find secret places”
“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.”
“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.”
“Love will find its way through all languages on its own.”
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
“I will soothe you and heal you,”
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
“Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.”
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
“May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.”
“You think of yourself”
“Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.”
“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.”
“Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;”
“I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.”
“Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.”
“Reason is like an officer when the King appears; Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.”
“Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more — more unseen forms become manifest to him.”
“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.”
“Come, come, whoever you are.Come, come again, come.”
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
“I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world;For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.”
“The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.”
“He whose intellect overcomes his desire is higher than the angels; he whose desire overcomes his intellect is less than an animal.”
“The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.”
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
“I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.”
“As quoted in "Rumi and Self-Discovery" by Ibrahim Gamard, in Islamica Magazine Issue 15, (Summer 2005)”
“You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”
“We have a way from this visible world to the Unseen, we are the rosebush of certainty's rose garden.”
“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.”
“This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.”
“Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.”
“The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.To regard the self as easy to subdue is a mistake.”
“However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.”
“If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.”
“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you”
“If you dig a pit for others to fall into,you will fall into it yourself.”
“From "Wetness and Water"”
“Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,are your own nature reflected in them.”
“The lion who breaks the enemy's rankscompared to the lion who overcomes himself.”
“Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.”
“Were there no men of vision,all who are blind would be dead.”
“If you are wholly perplexed and in straits,have patience, for patience is the key to joy.”
“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.”
“If you are irritated by every rub,how will your mirror be polished?”
“Anyone in whom the troublemaking self has died,Dissolve in the Being who is everything.”
“There is no worse sickness for the soul,before self-complacency falls away.”
“When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.”
“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”
“Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation? that root must be cherished with all one's might.”
“Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.”
“Even though you're not equipped,equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.”
“If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon,wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?”
“When you see anyone complainingtowards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.”
“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.”
“That which God said to the rose,and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”
“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.”
“Many have been led astray by the Qur'an:for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.”
“If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.”
“The lower self does not want anyone to receive anything from anybody else, and if it is aware of something receiving a special boon, it seeks to destroy it.”
“Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.”
“To Love is to reach God.To Love is to reach God.”
“When in Love, body, mind, heart and soul don't even exist.”
“Love rests on no foundation. with no beginning or end.”
“They will ask you what else can a Lover produce?”
“Give your weakness to one who helps.”
“My head is bursting the many faces of my Beloved.”
“There is a certain cloud, are lost in it.”
“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.”
“I always thought that and never knew it.”
“This is a gathering of Lovers.This is a gathering of Lovers.”
“I don't know where I am.at times I give birth to it.”
“Even if you lose yourself in wrathit is me, who is the culmination of your dreams.”
“Didn't I tell youit is me, who is the welcoming banner at the gate of your contentment.”
“Didn't I tell you?it is me, who is your comforting body of water.”
“Didn't I tell you?it is me, who is the source of your happiness.”
“The branch might seem like the fruit's origin: In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.”
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
“"There's no courage", The Prophet said, "before the war has begun." It's not the carpet he's attacking, but the dirt in it.”
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“Love is the path and road of our Prophet”
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”
“The fire of Love cooks me”
“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”
“You dance inside my chest,”
“By eating meagerly, you become clever and aware.”
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
“I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.”
“Dwell in the place where your companions are spiritual heroes,”
“Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”
“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”
“We are born of love; Love is our mother.”
“Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.”
“Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.”
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
“When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”
“I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.”
“The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.”
“I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.”
“You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.”
“Be melting snow.”
“I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'”
“You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.”
“And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.”
“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.”
“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.”
“You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?”
“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”
“There are no enemies, just hurting people.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
“Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.”
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
“Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.”
“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
“That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.”
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”
“Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.”
“Love will find its way through all languages on its own.”
“There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.”
“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.”
“If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.”
“Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.”
“The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.”
“What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.”
“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.”
“When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.”
“Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.”
“May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.”
“The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.”
“This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.”
“Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.”
“However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.”
“May these vows and this marriage be blessed.”
“Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”
“The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.”
“If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread.”
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”
“Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.”
“Do you know what you are?”
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.”
“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
“Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”
“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”
“We are born of love; Love is our mother.”
“Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.”
“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.”
“Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.”
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”
“When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”
“I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing”
“The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.”
“I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.”
“You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.”
“A wealth you cannot imagine”
“I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'”
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
“You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.”
“And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.”
“Lovers find secret places”
“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.”
“You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?”
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
“Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?”
“Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.”
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
“Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.”
“That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.”
“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”
“Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.”
“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.”
“Love will find its way through all languages on its own.”
“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”
“There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.”
“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.”
“If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.”
“Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.”
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
“The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.”
“What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.”
“Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.”
“I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.”
“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.”
“When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.”
“Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.”
“May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.”
“The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.”
“This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.”
“May these vows and this marriage be blessed.”
“Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.”
“However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.”
“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”