Explore Quotes by Rumi

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle

The middle path is the way to wisdom

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.

Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.” “In prayer all are equal.

On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.

We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.

There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.

Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back to sleep. The power of Love is exclusive to us, you can go back to sleep. I have been burnt by the fire of Love. You who have no such yearning in your heart, go back to sleep. The path of Love, has seventy-two folds and countless facets. Your love and religion is all about deceit, control and hypocrisy, go back to sleep. I have torn to pieces my robe of speech, and have let go of the desire to converse. You who are not naked yet, you can go back to sleep.

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.