Explore Quotes by Rumi

Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.

Be suspicious of what you want.

Every need brings what's needed._x000D__x000D_Pain bears its cure like a child._x000D__x000D_Having nothing produces provisions._x000D__x000D_Ask a difficult question,_x000D__x000D_And the marvelous answer appears.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.

If you do not possess the staff of caution and discrimination, use the eyes of him who sees. If there is no staff of caution and discrimination, do not wander on the road without a guide.

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace.

Life is balance of holding on and letting go.

Those who are pure in heart achieve God-consciousness; they are truly and actually aware of God at the center of their being (their heart). These sanctified individuals are said to be Possessors of the Heart.

What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.

Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets. _x000D__x000D_Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject to The King. _x000D__x000D_Since you are not a captain, do not take the helm of the ship. _x000D__x000D_Since you do not possess every skill, have partners in your business. _x000D__x000D_Be as pliant as dough in the hands of others, that you may rise well.

You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside

This world is full of remedies. But you have no remedy until God opens a window for you. You may not be aware of that remedy just now. In the hour of need it will be made clear to you. The Prophet said God made a remedy for every pain.

Your heart mirrors not His love,_x000D__x000D_Rusty with your sins it is, _x000D__x000D_Remove this rust and you shall _x000D__x000D_Perceive how Glorious He is.

Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who fares without any doubt, adhere to his footprints if you do not know the way. Cleave to the footprints of the deer and advance with care that you may reach the musk-gland. By means of such trekking, even if you walk on fire, you will reach the luminous peak.

Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

I am a bird of God's garden _x000D__x000D_and I do not belong to this dusty world _x000D__x000D_For a day or two they have put me here _x000D__x000D_in this cage of my own body_x000D__x000D_I did not come here of my own _x000D__x000D_I will not return of my own _x000D__x000D_to my own country.

Eventhough you are not equipped, _x000D__x000D_keep searching: _x000D__x000D_equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord. _x000D__x000D_Whoever you see engaged in search, _x000D__x000D_become her friend and cast your head in front of her, _x000D__x000D_for choosing to be a neighbour of seekers, _x000D__x000D_you become one yourself; _x000D__x000D_protected by conquerors,_x000D__x000D_you will yourself learn to conquer. _x000D__x000D_If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon, _x000D__x000D_don't smile contemptuously upon its quest. _x000D__x000D_And of all your skills, and wealth and handicraft, _x000D__x000D_Weren't they first merely a thought and a quest?

For those who realize that everything is from God, everything is the same.