Rumi Quotes
Rumi Quote of the day
The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:eat less of it, for it is full of fire.Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.
The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.
Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.
Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty.
We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.
I keepholding upthe mirror of the sun, so you can see the stunningreflections of everythingyou’re becom-ing.
The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.
Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you.Do not consider what strangers say.Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.
...see the blessing and beauty that you are.
I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns.
Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.
...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.
Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.
Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
...purification was the point of such pain.
If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.
You collide with destiny caught up in the mystery of walking the halls of a mind that's only inclined to recognize & expect victory.
The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.
...anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.
Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface, yet I'm already underand living within the ocean.
You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art.
Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.
Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.
Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.
And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.
It is necessary to note, " says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).
You know how it goes:at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God.Then you abandoned life and loverand started celebratingyour love for God.
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.
The less you know, the more you will be knownThe less you want, the more you will haveThe less you are, the more you will be
Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!Forget your life, live!Forget yourself and be!
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.
You may think just a windowBut you overtook my soul.You are not just a whisper, You are louder than my soul. (from poem Chimera)
Die! Die! Die in this love!If you die in this love, Your soul will be renewed. Die! Die! Don’t fear the death of that which is knownIf you die to the temporal, You will become timeless.
Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.
You broughtme your darkness& I loved youwith the radianttears of athousand suns.
