Rumi Quotes

“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

“Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.”

“Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving.”

“Love is fearless in the midstof the sea of fear.”

“Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.”

“The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.”

“I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.”

“Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in Love.”

“Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

“In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?”

“If you put your heart against the earth with meIn serving every creature, our Beloved will enter youFrom our sacred realm, and we will be, we will beSo happy.”

“I should be suspicious of what I want.”

“We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.”

“Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea.”

“My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.”

“Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.”

“There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”

“Because I cannot sleep I make music at night.”

“Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.”

“Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.”

“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”

“My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.”

“Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting.”

“Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything.”

“How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.”