Top 1780 Quotes & Sayings by Rumi
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
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.
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
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.
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.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
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.
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.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.
We are born of love; Love is our mother.
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?
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.
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
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.
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.
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
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.'
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.
Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
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.
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.
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
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.
You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.
What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.
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.
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.
A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle.
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
The world is nothing but a moment.
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.
When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home
The Inspiration You Seek
Is Already Within You.
Be Silent And Listen.
When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.
Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself
Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
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