Explore Quotes by Rumi

Jesus was lost in his love for God.

There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.

A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.

You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.

How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.

Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.

My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit.

The beginning of pride and hatred lies in worldly desire, and the strength of your desire if from habit. When an evil tendency becomes confirmed by habit, rage is triggered when anyone restrains you.

Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.

Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

Revile those who flatter you.

Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game.

When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.

It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.

If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.