Explore Quotes by Rumi

What can I do my friends, if I do not know? I am neither Christian nor Jew, nor Muslim nor Hindu. What can I do? What can I do? Not of the East, nor of the West, Nor of the land, nor of the sea, Not of nature's essence, nor of circling heavens. What could I be?

Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

You had better run from me. My words are fire.

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; to regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, to see beyond seeing itself, to reach and feel within the breast.

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

There are no edges to my loving now.

Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.

When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.

Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.

Shine like the whole universe is yours.

Love is a river. Drink from it.