Explore Quotes by Rumi

I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.

You suppose you are the trouble_x000D_ But you are the cure_x000D_ You suppose that you are the lock on the door_x000D_ But you are the key that opens it_x000D_ It's too bad that you want to be someone else_x000D_ You don't see your own face, your own beauty_x000D_ Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.

The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

I always thought that _x000D_ I was me — but no, _x000D_ I was you _x000D_ and never knew it.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.

O Beloved, where is the Beloved?

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.

I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

There is a fountain inside you. Don't walk around with an empty bucket.

What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being.

Smiles come best from those who weep.

Enough of words. Come to me without a sound.