Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, or simply Rumi, was a Persian 13th-century poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. Rumi’s works were written mostly in Persian, but occasionally he also used Turkish, Arabic and Greek in his verse.
Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi Quotes
1. “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.”
― Rumi
2. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
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3. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
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4. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
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5. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
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6. “What you seek is seeking you.”
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7. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
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8. “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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9. “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.”
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10. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
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11. “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
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12. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
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13. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
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14. “Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
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15. “Knock, And He’ll open the door
Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.”
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16. “When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”
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17. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
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18. “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
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19. “I want to see you.
Know your voice.
Recognize you when you
first come ’round the corner.
Sense your scent when I come
into a room you’ve just left.
Know the lift of your heel,
the glide of your foot.
Become familiar with the way
you purse your lips
then let them part,
just the slightest bit,
when I lean in to your space
and kiss you.
I want to know the joy
of how you whisper
“more”
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20. “silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
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21. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
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22. “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.”
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23. “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
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24. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
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25. “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
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26. “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
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27. “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.”
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28. “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
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29. “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
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30. “Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
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31. “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
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32. “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don’t you?”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
33. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
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34. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
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35. “This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor…Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
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36. “Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?”
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37. “Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
― Rumi
38. “I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”
― Jalalu’l-din Rumi
39. “Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
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40. “Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
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41. “Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”
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42. “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
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43. “Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.”
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44. “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
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45. “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
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46. “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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47. “Two there are who are never satisfied — the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
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48. “Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.”
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49. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
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50. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
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51. “Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.”
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52. “I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I’ve been knocking from the inside.”
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53. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
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54. “Take someone who doesn’t keep score,
who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he’s free.”
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55. “Sit, be still, and listen,
because you’re drunk
and we’re at
the edge of the roof.”
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56. “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
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57. “People want you to be happy.
Don’t keep serving them your pain!
If you could untie your wings
and free your soul of jealousy,
you and everyone around you
would fly up like doves.”
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58. “When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
… When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!”
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59. “The cure for pain is in the pain.”
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60. “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
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61. “I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
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62. “I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no rejection,
I choose to love you in loneliness…
For in loneliness no one owns you but me,
I choose to adore you from a distance…
For distance will shield me from pain,
I choose to kiss you in the wind…
For the wind is gentler than my lips,
I choose to hold you in my dreams…
For in my dreams, you have no end.”
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63. “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
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64. “Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
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65. “But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.”
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66. “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. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”
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67. “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
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68. “The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don’t go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep!
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
The door is round and open
Don’t go back to sleep!”
― Rumi
69. “A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.”
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70. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
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72. “You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.”
― Rumi
73. “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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74. “Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.”
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75. “Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”
― Rumi
76. “You try to be faithful
And sometimes you’re cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Without you, I can’t cope.
And when you take the lead,
I become your footstep.
Your absence leaves a void.
Without you, I can’t cope.
You have disturbed my sleep,
You have wrecked my image.
You have set me apart.
Without you, I can’t cope.”
― Rumi
77. “If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.”
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78. “Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged”
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79. “You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck!”
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80. “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.”
― Rumi
81. “You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
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82. “I didn’t come here of my own accord, and I can’t leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.”
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83. “My heart is so small
it’s almost invisible.
How can You place
such big sorrows in it?
“Look,” He answered,
“your eyes are even smaller,
yet they behold the world.”
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81. “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
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82. “Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
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83. “I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star.”
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84. “Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.”
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85. “In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”
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86. “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
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87. “An eye is meant to see things.
The soul is here for its own joy.
A head has one use: For loving a true love.
Feet: To chase after.
Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,
for learning what men have done and tried to do.
Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind
when it only wants to see why.
A lover is always accused of something.
But when he finds his love, whatever was lost
in the looking comes back completely changed.”
― Rumi
88. “You think because you understand ‘one’ you must also understand ‘two’, because one and one make two. But you must also understand ‘and’.”
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89. “At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door
and open the love-window.
The moon won’t use the door,
only the window.”
― Rumi
90. “The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.”
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91. “Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight is blind
and try to see a treasure in everyone.”
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92. “Beauty surrounds us.”
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93. “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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94. “Here is a relationship booster
that is guaranteed to
work:
Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid
make your eyes light up as if you
just heard something
brilliant.”
― Rumi
95. “Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. ”
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96. “Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”
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97. “Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.”
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98. “Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”
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99. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”
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100. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
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101. “I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.”
― Rumi
102. “When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.”
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103. “On a day
when the wind is perfect,
the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a
day.”
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104. “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
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105. “Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions
with beauty.”
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106. “When someone is counting out
gold for you, don’t look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at the giver.”
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107. “They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?”
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108. “I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns.”
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109. “Put your thoughts to sleep,
do not let them cast a shadow
over the moon of your heart.
Let go of thinking.”
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110. “Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;
For I am like the Moon,
you will see me with new face everyday.”
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111. “There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can’t hope.
The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.”
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112.“Within tears, find hidden laughter
Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. ”
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113. “You are a volume in the divine book
A mirror to the power that created the universe
Whatever you want, ask it of yourself
Whatever you’re looking for can only be found
Inside of you”
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114. “Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave ’til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”
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115. “I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.”
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116. “For ages you have come and gone
courting this delusion.
For ages you have run from the pain
and forfeited the ecstasy.
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
Although you appear in earthly form
Your essence is pure Consciousness.
You are the fearless guardian
of Divine Light.
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
When you lose all sense of self
the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish.
Lose yourself completely,
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
You descended from Adam, by the pure Word of God,
but you turned your sight
to the empty show of this world.
Alas, how can you be satisfied with so little?
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
Why are you so enchanted by this world
when a mine of gold lies within you?
Open your eyes and come —
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
You were born from the rays of God’s Majesty
when the stars were in their perfect place.
How long will you suffer from the blows
of a nonexistent hand?
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
You are a ruby encased in granite.
How long will you decieve Us with this outer show?
O friend, We can see the truth in your eyes!
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
After one moment with that glorious Friend
you became loving, radiant, and ecstatic.
Your eyes were sweet and full of fire.
Come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
Shams-e Tabriz, the King of the Tavern
has handed you an eternal cup,
And God in all His glory is pouring the wine.
So come! Drink!
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
Soul of all souls, life of all life – you are That.
Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving – you are That.
The road that leads to the City is endless;
Go without head and feet
and you’ll already be there.
What else could you be? – you are That.”
― Rumi
117. “When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.”
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118. “I said: what about my eyes?
He said: Keep them on the road.
I said: What about my passion?
He said: Keep it burning.
I said: What about my heart?
He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
I said: Pain and sorrow.
He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
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119. “All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”
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120. “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
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121. “Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.”
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122. “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.”
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123. “Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?”
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124. “I will be waiting here….
For your silence to break,
For your soul to shake,
For your love to wake!”
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125. “Like This
If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting
will look, lift your face
and say,
Like this.
When someone mentions the gracefulness
of the nightsky, climb up on the roof
and dance and say,
Like this.
If anyone wants to know what “spirit” is,
or what “God’s fragrance” means,
lean your head toward him or her.
Keep your face there close.
Like this.
When someone quotes the old poetic image
about clouds gradually uncovering the moon,
slowly loosen knot by knot the strings
of your robe.
Like this.
If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead,
don’t try to explain the miracle.
Kiss me on the lips.
Like this. Like this.
When someone asks what it means
to “die for love,” point
here.
If someone asks how tall I am, frown
and measure with your fingers the space
between the creases on your forehead.
This tall.
The soul sometimes leaves the body, the returns.
When someone doesn’t believe that,
walk back into my house.
Like this.
When lovers moan,
they’re telling our story.
Like this.
I am a sky where spirits live.
Stare into this deepening blue,
while the breeze says a secret.
Like this.
When someone asks what there is to do,
light the candle in his hand.
Like this.
How did Joseph’s scent come to Jacob?
Huuuuu.
How did Jacob’s sight return?
Huuuu.
A little wind cleans the eyes.
Like this.
When Shams comes back from Tabriz,
he’ll put just his head around the edge
of the door to surprise us
Like this.”
― Rumi
126.“There are lovers content with longing.
I’m not one of them.”
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127. “You think you are alive
because you breathe air?
Shame on you,
that you are alive in such a limited way.
Don’t be without Love,
so you won’t feel dead.
Die in Love
and stay alive forever.”
― Rumi
128. “The rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorns.”
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129. “I searched for God among the Christians and on the Cross and therein I found Him not.
I went into the ancient temples of idolatry; no trace of Him was there.
I entered the mountain cave of Hira and then went as far as Qandhar but God I found not.
With set purpose I fared to the summit of Mount Caucasus and found there only ‘anqa’s habitation.
Then I directed my search to the Kaaba, the resort of old and young; God was not there even.
Turning to philosophy I inquired about him from ibn Sina but found Him not within his range.
I fared then to the scene of the Prophet’s experience of a great divine manifestation only a “two bow-lengths’ distance from him” but God was not there even in that exalted court.
Finally, I looked into my own heart and there I saw Him; He was nowhere else.”
― Rumi
130. “My lips got lost on the way to the kiss –
that’s how drunk I
was.”
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131. “The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”
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132. “You have no idea how hard I’ve looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What’s the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It’s no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I’ve brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.”
― Rumi
133. “Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”
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134. “Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.”
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135. “Shine like the whole universe is yours.”
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136. “Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”
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137. “Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being.”
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138. “The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.”
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139. “You are so weak. Give up to grace.
The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.
You need more help than you know.”
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140. “You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this world of dust and matter.
Out of this dust
you have created a personal image,
and have forgotten
about the essence of your true origin”
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141. “Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart.
A voice inside the beat says, “I know you’re tired, but come. This is the way.”
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142. “What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.”
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143. “I am yours.
Don’t give myself back to me.”
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144. “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”
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145. “Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!”
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146. “Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall and falling,
they’re given wings.”
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147. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.”
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148. “Do not leave me,
hide in my heart like a secret,
wind around my head like a turban.
“I come and go as I please,”
you say, “swift as a heartbeat.”
You can tease me as much as you like
but never leave me.”
― Rumi
149. “Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.”
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150. “This is how I would die
into the love I have for you:
As pieces of cloud
dissolve in sunlight.”
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151. “Keep walking, though there’s no place to get to.
Don’t try to see through the distances.
That’s not for human beings. Move within,
But don’t move the way fear makes you move.”
― Rumi
152. “You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do, and that
sight becomes this art.”
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153. “Whoever’s calm and sensible is insane!”
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154. “Let silence take you to the core of life.”
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155. “She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.”
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156. “Give your weakness to one who helps.”
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157. “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart”
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158. “Love calls – everywhere and always.
We’re sky bound.
Are you coming?”
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159. “Try something different. Surrender.”
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160. “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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161. “I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.”
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162. “You are a lover of your own experience … not of me … you turn to me to feel ur own emotion”
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163. “Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
your heart must forget about
shame and dignity.
You are God’s lover,
yet you worry
what people
are saying.”
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164. “Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.”
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165. “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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166. “For without you, I swear, the town
Has become like a prison to me.
Distraction and the mountain
And the desert, all I desire.”
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167. “At the end of my life, with just one breath left,
if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.”
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168. “In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances”
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169. “I don’t want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.”
― Rumi
170. 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.”
― Rumi
171. “What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.
I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian nor Muslim,
I am not from east or west, not from land or sea,
not from the shafts of nature nor from the spheres of the firmament,
not of the earth, not of water, not of air, not of fire.
I am not from the highest heaven, not from this world,
not from existence, not from being.
I am not from India, not from China, not from Bulgar, not from Saqsin,
not from the realm of the two Iraqs, not from the land of Khurasan.
I am not from the world, not from beyond,
not from heaven and not from hell.
I am not from Adam, not from Eve, not from paradise and not from Ridwan.
My place is placeless, my trace is traceless,
no body, no soul, I am from the soul of souls.
I have chased out duality, lived the two worlds as one.
One I seek, one I know, one I see, one I call.
He is the first, he is the last, he is the outer, he is the inner.
Beyond He and He is I know no other.
I am drunk from the cup of love, the two worlds have escaped me.
I have no concern but carouse and rapture.
If one day in my life I spend a moment without you
from that hour and that time I would repent my life.
If one day I am given a moment in solitude with you
I will trample the two worlds underfoot and dance forever.
O Sun of Tabriz, I am so tipsy here in this world,
I have no tale to tell but tipsiness and rapture.”
― Rumi
172. “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
― Rumi
173. “To live without you
is to be robbed of love
and what is life without it?
To live without you
is death to me, my love
but some call it life.”
― Rumi
