Explore Quotes by Rumi

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.

I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached.

Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.

Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?

How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.

Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.

This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.

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

A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

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

I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light.

Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.

Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.

Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.