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\"Rumi<\/a>
Rumi quotes and aphorisms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jalal al-Din Rumi quotes and aphorisms, great words of wisdom and poetry of the most famous and influential Persian mystics and spiritual poets in history.<\/span><\/p>\n

A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union. Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you\u2019d ever imagined.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something, will find it.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone\u2019s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Be an empty page, untouched by words.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Be drunk with love, for love is all that exists.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Be kind to yourself, dear – to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others\u2019 faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Be with those who help your being.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I\u2019ll meet you there.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Clean out your ears, don\u2019t listen for what you already know.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the light.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Dance, when you\u2019re broken open. Dance, if you\u2019ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you\u2019re perfectly free.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Dance until you shatter yourself.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets. But they are not gone.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your heart from the darkness of hate.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don\u2019t forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t dismiss the heart, even if it\u2019s filled with sorrow. God\u2019s treasures are buried in broken hearts.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That\u2019s where the light enters you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Each moment contains a hundred messages from God.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Either give me more wine or leave me alone. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Every need brings what\u2019s needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, and the marvelous answer appears.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that\u2019s why they have so much heartache and sorrow.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. Halfheartedness does not reach into majesty!<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life\u2019s search for love and wisdom.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Half-heartedness doesn\u2019t reach into majesty.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I am a child whose teacher is love surely my master won\u2019t let me grow to be a fool.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I am yours. Don\u2019t give myself back to me.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection. I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me. I choose to adore you from a distance. For distance will shield me from pain. I choose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips. I choose to hold you in my dreams, for me in dreams, you have no ends.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I have found the heart and will never leave this house of light.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I have neither a soul nor a body, for I come from the very Soul of all souls.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The soul calls from within me: \u2018You, ignorant of the way of Love, set me free.\u2019<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: ‘You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.’ <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I know you\u2019re tired but come, this is the way.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I should be suspicious of what I want.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

If destiny comes to help you, love will come to meet you. A life without love isn\u2019t a life.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

If you love someone, you are always joined with them \u2013 in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want money more than anything, you\u2019ll be bought and sold your whole life.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Jalal<\/a>
Jalal al-Din Rumi quotes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Inside any deep asking is the answering. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own soul. Enter the ruins of your heart and learn the meaning of humility.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Joy lives concealed in grief.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Knock, and He\u2019ll open the door. Vanish, and He\u2019ll make you shine like the sun. Fall, and He\u2019ll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, and He\u2019ll turn you into everything.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Let silence be the art you practice. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Let silence take you to the core of life.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Let your teacher be love itself.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Let yourself become living poetry.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to the sound of waves within you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is the water of life, jump into this water.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is the water of life. Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar-eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the water of life.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Love risks everything and asks for nothing. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is the bridge between you and everything. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Love will find its way through all languages on its own. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Lovers don\u2019t finally meet somewhere. They\u2019re in each other all along.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Lovers have heartaches that can\u2019t be cured by drugs or sleep, or games, but only by seeing their beloved.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

May these vows and this marriage be blessed. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

My soul is from elsewhere, I\u2019m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Move, but don\u2019t move the way fear makes you move.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don\u2019t harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don\u2019t teach what you do not know.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart, sit only with those who know and understand you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit. I will meet you there.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Now I am sober and there\u2019s only the hangover and the memory of love.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don\u2019t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don\u2019t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh! Joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Only from the heart can you touch the sky. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

On the path of love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the master painter.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

On what is fear: Non-acceptance of uncertainty. If we accept that uncertainty, it becomes an adventure!<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Open your hands if you want to be held.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Patience is the key to joy. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Peaceful is the one who\u2019s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don’t give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the soul.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Run from what\u2019s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I\u2019ll be mad.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Shine like the whole universe is yours.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Silence gives answers.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Sit, be still, and listen.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don\u2019t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, \u201cBe more silent.\u201d As that happens, your soul starts to revive.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Sorrow\u2026 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.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah\u2026 it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you\u2019re looking at the light with infinite eyes.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Study me as much as you like, you will never know me. For I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Suffering is a gift; in its hidden mercy.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Take someone who doesn\u2019t keep score, who\u2019s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he\u2019s free.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The lion is most handsome when looking for food.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The moment you accept what troubles you\u2019ve been given, the door will open. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The source of now is here.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The spirit is so near that you can\u2019t see it! But reach for it\u2026 don\u2019t be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don\u2019t be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The whole universe is contained within a single human being \u2013 you. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don\u2019t you?<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a voice that doesn\u2019t use words, listen.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

This is how it always is when I finish a poem, a great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the essence of all sciences – that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Thankfulness brings you to the place where the beloved lives.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don\u2019t go back to sleep.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a true human being.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don\u2019t finally meet somewhere. They\u2019re in each other all along.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The soul is here for its own joy.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The universe and the light of the stars come through me.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

The wound is the place where the light enters you. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don\u2019t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

There is nothing I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there\u2019s another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor\u2026 Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

This silence, this moment, every moment, if it\u2019s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There\u2019s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, \u2018Be more silent.\u2019 Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you\u2019ve died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who don\u2019t feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don\u2019t drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don\u2019t want to change, let them sleep.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Till man destroys \u201cself\u201d he is no true friend of God. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

To me, nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Touched. How did you get here? Close your eyes\u2026 and surrender!<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Travel brings power and love back into your life. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Travelers, it is late. Life\u2019s sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Two there are who are never satisfied \u2013 the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what’s hidden. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another\u2026 It\u2019s all praise, and it\u2019s all right.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

We are born of love; Love is our mother. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us. <\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

We are all the same\u2026 all the same\u2026 longing to find our way back\u2026 back to the One\u2026 back to the only One!<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust\u2026 The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

We can\u2019t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

We rarely hear the inward music, but we\u2019re all dancing to it nevertheless.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?<\/span>
\nJalal al-Din Rumi<\/span><\/p>\n

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