Explore Quotes by Rumi

We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.

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

There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.

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

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.

I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.

What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul?

Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him

Come to the Root of the Root of your Self

My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo, its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompases every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.

Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?

This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.

Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.

Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open!

We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

Whoever acts with respect will get respect.

All because of love when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal