Explore Quotes by Rumi

Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments and the psyche's labyrinth. Who then am I? A consciousness without origin, Not born in time, nor begotten here below. I am that which was, is and ever shall be, A jewel in the crown of the Divine Self, A star in the firmament of the luminous One.

Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring.

Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!

Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.

Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.

This is a gathering of Lovers._x000D__x000D_In this gathering_x000D__x000D_there is no high, no low,_x000D__x000D_no smart, no ignorant,_x000D__x000D_no special assembly,_x000D__x000D_no grand discourse,_x000D__x000D_no proper schooling required._x000D__x000D_There is no master,_x000D__x000D_no disciple._x000D__x000D_This gathering is more like a drunken party,_x000D__x000D_full of tricksters, fools,_x000D__x000D_mad men and mad women._x000D__x000D_This is a gathering of Lovers.

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:_x000D__x000D_every success depends upon focusing the heart.

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?_x000D__x000D_What do you know of Love except the name?_x000D__x000D_Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,_x000D__x000D_and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion._x000D__x000D_Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:_x000D__x000D_it has no interest in a disloyal companion._x000D__x000D_The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:_x000D__x000D_that root must be cherished with all one's might.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded._x000D__x000D_Someone sober will worry about events going badly._x000D__x000D_Let the lover be.

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow_x000D__x000D_of your love, that somehow contains_x000D__x000D_the entire universe.

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,_x000D__x000D_Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape._x000D__x000D_Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment._x000D__x000D_Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn't find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was.