Explore Quotes by Rumi

Silence _x000D_is an ocean. Speech is a river. _x000D_When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk _x000D_into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, _x000D_and bring your talky business to an end. _x000D_Traditional words are just babbling _x000D_in that presence, and babbling is a substitute _x000D_for sight.

Speak with the language of love.

If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.

Submit to love without thinking

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.

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

Your eyes are even smaller,_x000D_yet they behold the world.

There’s nothing left of me._x000D_I’m like a ruby held up to the sunrise._x000D_Is it still a stone, or a world_x000D_made of redness? It has no resistance_x000D_to sunlight.

Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.

There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in Love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds. This was ordained in creation. Only from the heart can you reach the sky: The Rose of Glory can grow only from the heart.

Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal.

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.

Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can't see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path...Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.

You are the mirror of divine beauty.

Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?

Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don't plant anything but Love.

Swim out of your little pond.

When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.

He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.

I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world.