Jalaluddin Rumi, مثنوی معنوی Quotes

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.

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

We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

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

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

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

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

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

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.

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

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.

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

The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

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

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

Let silence take you to the core of life.

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

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

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

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

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.

Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

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.

In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.

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

A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

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

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.

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

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

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?

Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

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

Woman is the light of God.

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.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

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