Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight, a lonely hiddenness. Other pleasure gathers a crowd, starts a fight, lots of noise there. But soul beauty stays quiet..his amazing whereabouts unknown inside my heart.

Rumi

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

Rumi

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.

Rumi

But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

Rumi

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

Rumi

The universe and the light of the stars come through me.

Rumi

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

Rumi

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

Rumi

Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

Rumi

Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

Rumi

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

Rumi

Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.

Rumi

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.

Rumi

We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.

Rumi

I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.

Rumi

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

Rumi

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

Rumi

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

Rumi

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

Rumi

You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?

Rumi

The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before.

Rumi

If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.

Rumi

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

Rumi

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

Rumi

I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.

Rumi

Work on your strong qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.

Rumi

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.

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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.

Rumi

Love calls - everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming?

Rumi

Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.

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What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

Rumi

Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.

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Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.