Rumi Quotes - 63 quotes

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Rumi

Rumi (1207-1273) was a renowned Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi mystic. He was born Jalāl al-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī on September 30, 1207, in Balkh (now in Afghanistan), His family fled the Mongol invasions, eventually settling in Konya, in present-day Turkey. Rumi's father, Bahāʾ al-Dīn Walad, ... show more

quote icon Dwell in the place where your companions are spiritual heroes, So that they may wash the foul soot from your [heart] Don't think about their faults, for they Will know about it before you think.

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quote icon Didn't I tell you not to be satisfied with the veil of this world? I am the master illusionist, it is me, who is the welcoming banner at the gate of your contentment.

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quote icon Didn't I tell you? I am an ocean, you are a fish; do not go to the dry land, it is me, who is your comforting body of water.

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quote icon Didn't I tell you? They will accuse you of all the wrongdoings, they will call you ugly names, they will make you forget it is me, who is the source of your happiness.

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quote icon The branch might seem like the fruit's origin: In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.

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quote icon There's no courage before the war has begun.

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quote icon Drunkards vaunt their bravery when you speak of war. But in the blaze of battle they scatter like mice.

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quote icon I'm astonished by the man who wants purity And yet trembles when the harshness of polishing begin...

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quote icon When a man beats a carpet again and again It's not the carpet he's attacking, but the dirt in it.

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quote icon Love is best when mixed with anguish. In our town, we won't call you a Lover if you escape the pain. Look for Love in this way, welcome it to your soul, and watch you spirit fly away in ecstasy.

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quote icon By eating meagerly, you become clever and aware. And by eating gluttonously, you become foolish and idle. Your being full of misery is entirely from your gluttony. You will become less miserable if you become a sparse eater.

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quote icon If you dwell with unaware people, you will be cold, But if you dwell with aware ones, you will be a true man Go, and build your hermit cell inside a furnace, like gold If you go out of the furnace, you will be frozen solid

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quote icon “Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about.”

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quote icon “The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

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quote icon “Close your eyes. Fall in love. Stay there.”

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quote icon Some Hindoos were exhibiting an elephant in a dark room, and many people collected to see it. But as the place was too dark to permit them to see the elephant, they all felt it with their hands, to gain an idea of what it was like. One felt its trunk, and declared that the beast resembled a water-pipe; another felt its ear, and said it must be a large fan; another its leg, and thought it must be a pillar; another felt its back, and declared the beast must be like a great throne. According to the part which each felt, he gave a different description of the animal.

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quote icon Reason is like an officer when the King appears; The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

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quote icon People imagine that it is a presumptive claim, whereas it is really a presumptive claim to say "I am the slave of God"; and "I am God" is an expression of great humility. The man who says "I am the slave of God" affirms two existences, his own and God's, but he that says "I am God" has made himself non-existent and has given himself up and says "I am God", that is, "I am naught, He is all; there is no being but God's." This is the extreme of humility and self-abasement.

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar With angels blest; but even from angelhood I must pass on: all except God doth perish. When I have sacrificed my angel-soul, I shall become what no mind e'er conceived. Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existence Proclaims in organ tones, To Him we shall return.

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quote icon Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of living, it doesn't matter Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come even if you have broken your vow a thousand times, Come, yet again, come, come.

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quote icon Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo, whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of more invisible game. Think how it is to have a conversation with an embryo. You might say, "The world outside is vast and intricate. There are wheatfields and mountain passes, and orchards in bloom. At night there are millions of galaxies, and in sunlight the beauty of friends dancing at a wedding." You ask the embryo why he, or she, stays cooped up in the dark with eyes closed. Listen to the answer. There is no "other world." I only know what I've experienced. You must be hallucinating.

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quote icon Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon He whose intellect overcomes his desire is higher than the angels; he whose desire overcomes his intellect is less than an animal.

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quote icon The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.

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quote icon Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

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quote icon You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

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quote icon Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

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quote icon The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.

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quote icon If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

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quote icon If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.

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quote icon Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.

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quote icon Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

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quote icon If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

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quote icon If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

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quote icon There is no worse sickness for the soul, O you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation? What do you know of Love except the name? Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain, and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion. Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal: it has no interest in a disloyal companion.

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quote icon Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.

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quote icon If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon, don't smile contemptuously upon its quest. Everything you possess of skill, and wealth and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon To Love is to reach God.

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quote icon Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.

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quote icon They will ask you what you have produced. Say to them, except for Love, what else can a Lover produce?

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quote icon My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown.

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quote icon This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly, no grand discourse, no proper schooling required. There is no master, no disciple. This gathering is more like a drunken party, full of tricksters, fools, mad men and mad women. This is a gathering of Lovers.

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quote icon Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

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quote icon Love is the bridge between you and everything.

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quote icon When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

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quote icon The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want you already are.

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quote icon This being human is a guest house.

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.

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quote icon When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety, if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without any pain, from this, I understand that what I want also wants me, and is looking for me and attracting me, there’s a great secret in this for all who can grasp it.

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quote icon Dance, when you are broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance, when you are perfectly free. Struck, the dancers hear the tambourine inside them, as a wave turns the foam on its very top, begin. Maybe you don't hear that tambourine, all the tree leaves clapping time. Close the ears on your head that listen mostly to lies and cynical jokes. There are other things to hear and see: dance, music and a brilliant city inside the soul.

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon 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.

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quote icon 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.

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