Rumi Quotes

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there."

"Listen to the reed how it tells a tale, complaining of separations."

"This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival."

"Through love bitter things are made sweet, through love copper is made gold."

"Through love the dead are made living, through love the king is made a slave."

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

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

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

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

"I died as mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was man."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"What you seek is seeking you."

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

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

"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames."

"Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being."

"Love is the bridge between you and everything."

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

"Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love."

"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 should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?"

"Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop."

"Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah. It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you."

"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."

"Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious."

"Let the beauty we love be what we do."

"Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees."

"Respond to every call that excites your spirit."

"Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?"

"Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape."

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

"Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces."

"Love is the religion, and the universe is the book."

"Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises."

"Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there."

"With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love."

"I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think."

"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems."

"I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you, all else melted away."

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

"Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation."

"Love is not an emotion, it is your very existence."

"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you."

"Love is the sea of not-being, and there intellect drowns."

"Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent."

"Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire."

"Love is the ark appointed for the righteous."

"Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries."

"Love is an endless ocean, whose waves carry the soul toward the Beloved."

"Let Love, the water of life, flow through our veins."

"Why paint night over nightless day? Every religion has Love, but Love has no religion."

"Love is an ocean—no borders, no shores. Drown there and you won’t lament it."

"In separation, the lover is like a name empty of meaning; but a meaning such as belovedness has no need of names."

"From your love, I passed even beyond love itself. Of my own self, there is no name and no trace left."

"I have become you, and you me; I am the body, you the soul."

"You are my life and my world—what would I do with life and the world without you?"

"Love has been rebellious and wild from the beginning."

"Love is the fire that fell into the reed; its boiling is the love that fell into the wine."

"Love, you are the archer. My mind is your prey. Carry my heart and make my existence your bull’s-eye."

"Put the cup of oneness in my hand and let me drink from it until I can’t imagine separation."

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

"The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself."

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

"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."

"We have a way from this visible world to the Unseen."

"Every day we come to the garden and see a hundred blossoms."

"This noise of the reed is fire, it is not wind."

"If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence."

"Why should I fear? What was I ever lost by dying?"

"Anyone in whom the troublemaking self has died, sun and cloud obey."

"Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself."

"Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?"

"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled."

"Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."

"Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love."

"Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths."

"Patience is the key to joy."

"Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought."

"Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea."

"Whoever gives reverence receives reverence."

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

"Let not your mind wander; keep your heart focused on the Beloved."

"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal."

"Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence."

"Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself."

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

"Become the sky that holds the storms without losing its vastness."

"Your breath is a precious gift; do not spend it on empty things."

"Walk out of the circle of time and into the circle of love."

"Be a companion to the one who seeks truth, not to the one who seeks praise."

"Do not turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That is where the light enters you."

"Inside you there is an artist you don't know about."

"Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. Love embraces all."

"Every moment contains a hundred messages from God."

"Be a seeker of wisdom, not a collector of facts."

"Give thanks for the little things, and you will find the path to greater blessings."

"Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction."

"Why should I fear the past when the present is full of possibility?"

"Let your soul be stirred by beauty, and your life will become a prayer."

"Do not be content with the surface of things; seek the ocean beneath the waves."