Rumi Quotes

“Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.”

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

“Open to me, so that I may open.Provide me your inspirationSo that I might see mine.”

“Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.”

“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.”

“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.”

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

“Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.”

“Let the beauty we love do what we do.”

“There is a window between heart and heart:They are never separate like two bodies.Two lamps may not be united in their form -But their light merges into each other.”

“Close the language-door,and open the love-window”

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

“Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.”

“Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.”

“The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.”

“What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.”

“There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy.”

“This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.”

“Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.”

“Leave that which is not,but appears to be.Seek that which is,but is not apparent.”

“Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.”

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

“Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.”

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

“When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you’re expansive, no matter what the weather, you’re in an open, windy field with friends.”