Explore Quotes by Rumi

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.

We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. Milk drinkers draw close to the mother. Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, shamans, everyone hears the intelligent sound and moves with thirst to meet it.

I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.

A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it.

All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.

Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with it we probe the divine.

To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care!

There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.

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

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love and being a Lover. The way of our prophets is the way of Truth. If you want to live, die in Love; die in Love if you want to remain alive.

Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.

A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden's beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land.

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.

They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual? They wonder about Solomon and all his wives. In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul and you are that. But we have ways within each other that will never be said by anyone.

The Silk Worm_x000D__x000D__x000D_I stood before a silk worm one day. _x000D__x000D_And that night my heart said to me, _x000D__x000D__x000D_"I can do things like that, I can spin skies,_x000D__x000D_I can be woven into love that can bring warmth to people;_x000D__x000D_I can be soft against a crying face,_x000D__x000D_I can be wings that lift, and I can travel on my thousand feet_x000D__x000D_throughout the earth, my sacs filled with the sacred."_x000D__x000D__x000D_And I replied to my heart,_x000D__x000D_"Dear, can you really do all those things?"_x000D__x000D__x000D_And it just nodded "Yes" in silence. _x000D__x000D__x000D_So we began and will never cease.

Through love the devil becomes an angel._x000D__x000D_Through love stones become soft as butter._x000D__x000D_Through love grief is like delight._x000D__x000D_Through love demons become the servants of God.