Explore Quotes by Rumi

This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.

If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.

Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.

I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.

Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!

With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?

As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.

When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.