Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Rumi

A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.

Rumi

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.

Rumi

In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.

Rumi

God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.

Rumi

You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.

Rumi

The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.

Rumi

For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

Rumi

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

Rumi

Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.

Rumi

My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.

Rumi

I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty.

Rumi

The Beloved is with you in the midst of your seeking! He holds your hand wherever you wander.

Rumi

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

Rumi

We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

Rumi

Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.

Rumi

If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.

Rumi

My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.

Rumi

The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.

Rumi

Do not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. "I come and go as I please," you say, "swift as a heartbeat." You can tease me as much as you like but never leave me.

Rumi

To Love is to be God. Never will a Lover's chest feel any sorrow. Never will a Lover's robe be touched by mortals. Never will a Lover's body be found buried in the earth. To Love is to be God.

Rumi

Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.

Rumi

The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.

Rumi

No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

Rumi

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

Rumi

Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.

Rumi

You think the shadow is the substance.

Rumi

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

Rumi

Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing or two about whirling.

Rumi

I was there in the beginning and I was the spirit of love.

Tom Robbins

Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.

Shakti Gawain

We don't have in our culture a healthy understanding and respect for the value of Being, which is simply being present in the moment, not trying to go somewhere, not trying to accomplish anything but, just present.

Richard Hell

I remember the revelation it was to me when I realized I'd rather be smart in the way Elvis Presley was than in the way, say, Ludwig Wittgenstein was. The thing was, you could imagine you could be smart like Wittgenstein by just thinking hard enough, but Elvis just had it. It was almost spiritual. A kind of grace.