Quotes by Jalaluddin Rumi

“You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?”

“I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as a plant and rose to animal,I died as an animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”

“If Light Is In Your HeartYou Will Find Your Way Home.”

“If metal can be polishedto a mirrorlike finish,what polishing might the mirrorof the heart require?Between the mirror and the heartis this single difference:the heart conceals secrets,while the mir...”

“Woman is the light of God.”

“The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”

“I love my friendsneither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in caseHeart might stop. Mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets.”

“My BelovedKnow that my beloved in hidden from everyoneKnow that she is beyond the belief of all beliefsKnow that in my heart she is as clear as the moonKnow that she is the life in my body and in m...”

“You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy.”

“In the silence of loveyou will find the spark of life”

“I waitwith silent passionfor one gestureone glancefrom you”

“My wails of sorroware tormenting my soul”

“SUDDEN RESURRECTION! Endless mercy!Blazing fire in the thickets of thought! Today you came laughing Unlocking dungeons Came to the meek Like gods grace and bountyYou are the antechamber to the sunY...”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”

“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...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat e...”

“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”

“Bitter your acts, bitter am I,Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,Pleasant and gentle, so you are,Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.”

“How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unsp...”

“Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.”