Famous Quotes by Rumi

“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”

“Knowledge that is acquiredis not like this. Those who have it worry ifaudiences like it or not.It's a bait for popularity.Disputational knowing wants customers.It has no soul...The only real customer is God.Chew quietlyyour sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stayplayfully childish.”

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”

“Do you know what you are?You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself;everything that you want, you are already that.”

“Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”

“Give your weakness to one who helps.”

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.”

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”

“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”

“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.”

“I am yours.Don't give myself back to me.”

“Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.”

“Woman is the light of God.”

“The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”

“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.”

“I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.”

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

What you seek is seeking you.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

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

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

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.

Why are you so busy with this or that or good or bad, pay attention to how things blend.

When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

Let yourself become living poetry.

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.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?

This moment is all there is.

When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be.

In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought!

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.

Each morning we are born again. The past no longer matters.

There is a fire inside. Sit down beside it.