Rumi Quotes

“The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites”

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”

“In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances”

“There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?”

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

“Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.”

“He who tastes not, knows not.”

“Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.”

“Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.”

“Love has come to rule and transform; Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.”

“Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”

“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.”

“However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.”

“Silenceis an ocean. Speech is a river.When the ocean is searching for you, don't walkinto the language-river. Listen to the ocean,and bring your talky business to an end.Traditional words are just babblingin that presence, and babbling is a substitutefor sight.”

“Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”

“You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.”

“If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.”

“Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?”

“In this earth,in this immaculate field,we shall not plant any seedsexcept for compassion,except for love.”

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

“When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.”

“The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.”

“Fasting is the first principle of medicine.”

“Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”

“Lamps are different, but light is the same.”