Rumi Quotes

“I merged so completely with love, and was so fused,that I became Love and Love became me.”

“Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.”

“The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which have made men and women weepfor centuries, even those have changed now.What used to be pain is a lovely benchwhere we can rest under the roses.A left hand has become a right.A dark wall, a window.A cushion in a shoe heel,the leader of the community!Now silence. What we sayis poison to someand nourishing to others.What we say is a ripe fig,but not every bird that flieseats figs.”

“The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it.”

“Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings”

“Your eyes are even smaller,yet they behold the world.”

“We all face death in the end. But on the way, be careful never to hurt a human heart!”

“There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.”

“If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.”

“A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.”

“How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump.”

“Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . .”

“Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken.”

“Everyone is overridden by thoughts;that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.”

“Love is the way messengersfrom the mystery tell us things”

“The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?”

“Be crumbled.So wild flowers will come up where you are.You have been stony for too many years.Try something different.Surrender.”

“Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.”

“They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.”

“Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.”

“Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.”

“Wake up Lovers, It is time to start the Journey! Let us kiss the ground & flow like a river towards the Ocean. Only love can lead the way.”

“I am in Love with Love and Love is in love with me.”

“If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flowerI will pitch my tent in your shadow.Only your presence revives my withered heart.You are the candle that lights the whole worldand I am an empty vessel for your light.”

“If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.”