Quotes about rumi

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizonHow much it can fill your room depends on its windows.

The spirit is the mirror the body is the rust.(Divan-i-Shamsi Tabriz)

Die! Die! Die in this love!If you die in this love,Your soul will be renewed. Die! Die! Don’t fear the death of that which is knownIf you die to the temporal, You will become timeless.

We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.

...see the blessing and beauty that you are.

If I could repeat it,people passing by would be enlightened and go free.

I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.

Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.

And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.

It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together

Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!

You may think just a windowBut you overtook my soul.You are not just a whisper, You are louder than my soul. (from poem Chimera)

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.

Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.

Your transformation will be the miracle.

The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:eat less of it, for it is full of fire.Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God.

In one moment, we are now forever,in one moment...

Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.

No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.

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

...anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

Imitating others, I failed to find myself. I looked inside and discovered I only knew my name. When I stepped outside I found my real Self. ~Rumi

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

When I was a child, I saw God,I saw angels;I watched the mysteries of higher and lower worlds. I thought all men saw the same. At last I realized that they did not see.....

Did I Not Say To YouDid I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this mirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life?” Even though in anger you depart a hundred thousand years from me, in the end you will come to me, for I am your goal. Did I not say to you, “Be not content with worldly forms, for I am the fashioner of the tabernacle of your contentment?” Did I not say to you, “I am the sea and you are a single fish; go not to dry land, for I am your crystal sea?” Did I not sa

Explore many facets of the written word.

I keepholding upthe mirror of the sun,so you can see the stunningreflections of everythingyou’re becom-ing.

Notice how each particle moves.Notice how everyone has just arrived here from a journey.Notice how each wants a different food.Notice how the stars vanish as the sun comes up, and how all streams stream toward the ocean.Look at the chefs preparing special plates for everyone, according to what they need.Look at this cup that can hold the ocean.Look at those who see the face.Look through Shams’ eyes into the Water that is entirely jewels.

The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.

Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

....life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.

...purification was the point of such pain.

If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.

It is warmer here. Can you see the light? Trust it. It is safe. It has lived a long time. It has seen much more than you. You fight a demon that you once knew but the demon is already slain. And from the corner of your eye you will see the scattered, sacred fire reform again. Settle, settle. Peace, peace

Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

Somewhere along the way, there develops within the soul a yearning that can no longer be ignored, a craving for the great love affair. We feel it drawing ever closer. It is the greatest of them all. It cannot fail. It is all consuming. It is incomparable. It is the love affair with our own true nature and the source from which it comes. The desire is in all of us but, more often than not, it is ignored for other interests. We wrestle with each interest, trying to make it work, growing with each

You broughtme your darkness& I loved youwith the radianttears of athousand suns.

…the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community was to open the heart, explore the mystery of union,to fiercely search for and try to say the truth,and to celebrate the glory and difficulty in being in human incarnation.

You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see your treasure glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes.

Do you know what you are?You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself;everything that you want, you are already that.

You think of yourselfas a citizen of the universe.You think you belong to this world of dust and matter.Out of this dustyou have created a personal image,and have forgottenabout the essence of your true origin

i am anearthquake& dancemost heavilyupon all myfaults.

If you want special illumination, look upon the human face:See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth.

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute

Woman is the light of God.

When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star.

Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
yet you worry what people are saying.

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets.The moon sets.But they are not gone.~Rumi

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.

Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

I see the life with your sight,O" the love; you're my light.

The less you know, the more you will be knownThe less you want, the more you will haveThe less you are, the more you will be

A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you.Do not consider what strangers say.Be secluded in your secret heart-house,that bowl of silence.

Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone.

You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you,but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art.

Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty.

I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns.