Quotes by Rumi

“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”

“You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?”

“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.”

“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground there are a thousand ways to go home again. ”

“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.”

“The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God.”

“Die! Die! Die in this love!If you die in this love,Your soul will be renewed. Die! Die! Dont fear the death of that which is knownIf you die to the temporal, You will become timeless.”

“My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk Iwas.”

“Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged”

“Your faces are very beautiful,but they are wooden cages.You had better run from me.My words are fire.”

“The wit taught by God to the beeIs withheld from the lion and the wild ass.”

“There is a voice that doesnt use words. Listen.”

“Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.”

“Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.”

“I break out laughing. I frown.I yell and scream. Sometimes,if one jokes and giggles,one causes war.So I hide how tickled I am.Tears well up in my eyes.My body is a large city.Much grieving in one s...”

“The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.”

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.”

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

“What you seek is seeking you.”

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