Rumi Quotes
Welcome to Rumi Quotes. Here you will find famous quotations by Rumi.
Rumi Quotes and Quotations
A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see. ~Rumi
And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous. ~Rumi
And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here. ~Rumi
And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow. ~Rumi
As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears. ~Rumi
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. ~Rumi
Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself. ~Rumi
Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else. ~Rumi
Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. ~Rumi
Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give. ~Rumi
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Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say. ~Rumi
Can you find another market like this? Where, with your one rose, you can buy hundreds of rose gardens? ~Rumi
Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness. ~Rumi
Dance in the middle of fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. ~Rumi
Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear? ~Rumi
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. ~Rumi
Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you. ~Rumi
Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one. ~Rumi
Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. ~Rumi
Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses. ~Rumi
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He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live. ~Rumi
Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you. ~Rumi
How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now. ~Rumi
How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you're always flying off to blue perfection? ~Rumi
I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. ~Rumi
I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is. ~Rumi
I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. ~Rumi
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside! ~Rumi
I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled. ~Rumi
I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. ~Rumi
Rumi Quotes and Quotations
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. ~Rumi
If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring. ~Rumi
If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? ~Rumi
If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves. ~Rumi
If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and become a seeker of hearts. ~Rumi
Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace. ~Rumi
In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal. ~Rumi
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. ~Rumi
Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water. ~Rumi
Is what I say true? Say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe. ~Rumi
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Isn't it time to turn your heart into a temple of fire? ~Rumi
Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there. ~Rumi
Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being. ~Rumi
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. ~Rumi
Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly. ~Rumi
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. ~Rumi
Love's secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers - "Here I am!" ~Rumi
My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold. ~Rumi
No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God. ~Rumi
Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows. ~Rumi
Rumi Quotes and Quotations
Only from the heart can you touch the sky. ~Rumi
Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. ~Rumi
Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms. ~Rumi
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. ~Rumi
Something opens our wings, something makes boredom and hurt disappear. ~Rumi
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. ~Rumi
Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out. ~Rumi
Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup. ~Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. ~Rumi
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruit other than sorrow and joy. ~Rumi
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The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross. ~Rumi
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ~Rumi
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth. ~Rumi
There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into Light. ~Rumi
There is a way of breathing that's a shame and a suffocation and there's another way of expiring, a love breath, that lets you open infinitely. ~Rumi
This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I'll be completely sober. ~Rumi
This is how we are with wine and beautiful food... we want and we get drunk with wanting, then the headache and bitterness afterward. ~Rumi
This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it. ~Rumi
Tonight the moon kisses the stars. ~Rumi
Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing. ~Rumi
Rumi Quotes and Quotations
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are. ~Rumi
Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life. ~Rumi
When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears. ~Rumi
Where will you plant your grief-seeds? We need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire. ~Rumi
Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins? ~Rumi
Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God. ~Rumi
Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you? ~Rumi
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? ~Rumi
Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand? ~Rumi
Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible. ~Rumi
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You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky. ~Rumi
You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment. ~Rumi
You go from village to village on your horse asking everyone, "Has anyone seen my horse?" ~Rumi
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? ~Rumi
Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting. ~Rumi