Rumi Quotes

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad. – Rumi

Knock. And he’ll open the door. – Rumi

The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth. – Rumi

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

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

I found myself. – Rumi

Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you. – Rumi

You’ve seen my descent. Now watch my rising. – Rumi

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want you already are.– Rumi

Your heart knows the way, run in that direction. – Rumi

Be patient where you sit in the dark, the dawn is coming. – Rumi

The wound is the place where the light enters you. – Rumi

The quieter you become the more you are able to hear. – Rumi

Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. – Rumi

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

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

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about. – Rumi

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

The lamps are different, but the light is the same. – Rumi

When you do things from the soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. – Rumi

There is a voice that doesn’t use words, listen. – Rumi

You have within you more love than you could ever understand. – Rumi

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore. – Rumi

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open. – Rumi

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

My soul is my guide. – Rumi

Close your eyes. Fall in love. Stay there. – Rumi

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. – Rumi

Life is a balance between holding on and letting go. – Rumi

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

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray. – Rumi

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

We are one. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. – Rumi

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom. – Rumi

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. – Rumi

Actually, your soul and mine are the same, we appear and disappear in each other. – Rumi

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being. – Rumi

Know that one day, your pain will become your cure. – Rumi

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. – Rumi

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. – Rumi

It’s your road and yours alone others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. – Rumi

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. – Rumi

Reason is powerless in the expression of love. – Rumi

This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are. – Rumi

If you find me not within you, you will never find me. For I have been with you, from the beginning of me. – Rumi

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. – Rumi

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere, they are in each other all along. – Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. – Rumi

There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that. – Rumi

Shine like the universe is yours. – Rumi

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. – Rumi

Love is the religion, and the universe is the book. – Rumi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why do you stay in prison. When the door is so wide open? – Rumi

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

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

I know you’re tired but come, this is the way. – Rumi

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy. – Rumi

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

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

Two there are who are never satisfied — the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge. – Rumi

And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself? – Rumi

Either give me more wine or leave me alone. – Rumi

The cure for pain is in the pain. – Rumi

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways. – Rumi

A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. – Rumi

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

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings. – Rumi

You think because you understand ‘one’ you must also understand ‘two’, because one and one make two. But you must also understand ‘and’. – Rumi

The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

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

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

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not on. – Rumi

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. – Rumi

When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near the truth. – Rumi

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows. – Rumi

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls? – Rumi

Within tears, find hidden laughter. – Rumi

Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire. – Rumi

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. – Rumi

Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere? – Rumi

There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them. – Rumi

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. – Rumi

The rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorns. – Rumi

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

The lion is most handsome when looking for food. – Rumi

Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty. – Rumi

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation! – Rumi

Shine like the whole universe is yours. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being. – Rumi

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. – Rumi

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me. – Rumi

Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there. – Rumi

Give your weakness to one who helps. – Rumi

Let silence take you to the core of life. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her. – Rumi

Whoever’s calm and sensible is insane! – Rumi

You are a lover of your own experience … not of me … you turn to me to feel your own emotion. – Rumi

Try something different. Surrender. – Rumi

In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances. – Rumi

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

The universe and the light of the stars come through me. – Rumi

Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given the door with open. – Rumi

If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader. – Rumi

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. – Rumi

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love. – Rumi

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

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? – Rumi

I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you’ll look at the ground. I want that blessing. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go, words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean. – Rumi

This poetry. I never know what I’m going to say. – Rumi

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind. – Rumi

I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

People of the world don’t look at themselves, and so they blame one another. – Rumi

You had better run from me. My words are fire. – Rumi

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are. – Rumi

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment. – Rumi

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens. – Rumi

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. – Rumi

Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full. – Rumi

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. – Rumi

Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it. – Rumi

Poems are rough notations for the music we are. – Rumi

Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for I see you there, my dear. – Rumi

Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you. – Rumi

Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself. – Rumi

Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues. – Rumi

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn’t it first merely a thought and a quest? – Rumi

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition. – Rumi

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

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

Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours. – Rumi

When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside. – Rumi

Dance until you shatter yourself. – Rumi

There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts. – Rumi

Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world. – Rumi

When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated. – Rumi

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. – Rumi

Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine. – Rumi

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. – Rumi

The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize. – Rumi

Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul. – Rumi

Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives. – Rumi

The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak. – Rumi

It’s your road and yours alone. others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. – Rumi

For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times. – Rumi

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

If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health. – Rumi

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

I want a trouble-maker for a lover, blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, who burns like fire on the rushing sea. – Rumi

There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God. – Rumi

Why am I seeking? I am the same as him. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself. – Rumi

Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes. – Rumi

Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening so your life will stay fresh. – Rumi

Because I cannot sleep I make music in the night. – Rumi

Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen! – Rumi

Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love. – Rumi

Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it. – Rumi

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one. – Rumi

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

Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds. – Rumi

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire. – Rumi

We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts. – Rumi

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent. – Rumi

That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again. – Rumi

Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery. – Rumi

Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for. – Rumi

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

Every story is us. – Rumi

There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don’t think all ecstasies are the same! – Rumi

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

The soul is here for its own joy. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits. – Rumi

Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that. – Rumi

As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner. – Rumi

On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter. – Rumi

I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference. – Rumi

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

You’ve seen my descent, now watch my rising. – Rumi

I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life. – Rumi

How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? – Rumi

Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need the ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire. – Rumi

There’s a field somewhere beyond all doubt and wrongdoing. I’ll meet you there. – Rumi

Like a shadow, I am and I am not. – Rumi

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it’s always in motion. – Rumi

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy. – Rumi

Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. – Rumi

Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself. – Rumi

Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire. – Rumi

I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping. – Rumi

Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, Be more silent. – Rumi As that happens, your soul starts to revive. – Rumi

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand. – Rumi

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. – Rumi

Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don’t be afraid to use one. – Rumi

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real Sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl. – Rumi

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls. – Rumi

Flow down and down in always widening rings of being. – Rumi

We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. – Rumi

If it is the 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. – Rumi

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from the tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is the illumination of heart. – Rumi

A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke. – Rumi

This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children. – Rumi

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

This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart. – Rumi

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you… This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. – Rumi

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love. – Rumi

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you. – Rumi

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

Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it. – Rumi

Look for the answer inside your question. – Rumi

I said, I just want to know you and then disappear. – Rumi She said, Knowing me does not mean dying. – Rumi

The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt. – Rumi

Love is a river. Drink from it. – Rumi

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

Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place. – Rumi

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

Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle. – Rumi

Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul. – Rumi

In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says- Rumi your beauty lights up everything around you. – Rumi

When someone is counting out gold for you, don’t look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver. – Rumi

In the silence of love you will find the spark of life. – Rumi

Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.b

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun. b

Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love. – Rumi

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost. – Rumi

Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake. – Rumi

Love is not an emotion, it’s your very existence. – Rumi

The middle path is the way to wisdom. – Rumi

I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There’s no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence. – Rumi

There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes. – Rumi

I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you. – Rumi

Your soul is so close to mine That what you dream, I know. … I know everything you think of: your heart is so close to mine!- Rumi

Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. – Rumi

Don’t make the body do what the spirit does best, and don’t put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry. – Rumi

When I am with you, everything is prayer. – Rumi

There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it. – Rumi

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. – Rumi

Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out. – Rumi

There are no edges to my loving now. – Rumi

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will never lead you astray. – Rumi

If you look too closely at the form, you’ll miss the essence. – Rumi

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty. – Rumi

People want you to be happy, don’t keep serving them your pain. – Rumi

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are. b

I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple. – Rumi

What you seek is seeking you. – Rumi

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. b

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

I know you’re tired but come, this is the way. – Rumi