Quotes by Rumi

“If you want money more than anything,you will be bought and sold.If you have a greed for food,you will become a loaf of bread.This is a subtle truth.Whatever you love, you are.”

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

“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, gree...”

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

“When soul risesInto lipsYou feel the kiss You have wanted”

“You are my wine, my joy,My garden, my springtime,My slumber, my repose,Without you, I can't cope.”

“My Soul is my Guide, for my Soul is of that Abode I will not Speak of the Earthly, I am of the Unknown.”

“Your depression is connected to your insolenceand refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or womansteals from others every day--is a shoplifter...”

“The Ego is a veil between humans and God.In prayer all are equal.”

“Last night you left me and sleptyour own deep sleep. Tonight you turnand turn. I say,You and I will be togethertill the universe dissolves.You mumble back things you thought ofwhen you were drunk.”

“It's your road, and yours alone.others may walk it with you,but no one can walk it for you.”

“Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret,and in exchange gain the Ocean.Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor,and in the arms of the Sea be secure.Who indeed should be so fortunate...”

“With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love.”

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.Dont grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.First, to let go of life.In the end, to take a step without feet;to regard this world as invisible,and to disre...”

“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...”

“Doost", Ahmed voiced. "Doost",he repeated softly,shutting his eyes.The word felt like a caress."what does it mean?"'It means "The Friend","The One I Love","the One I Long For".”

“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 s...”

“What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian nor Muslim,I am not from east or west, not from land or sea,not from the shafts of nature nor from the sp...”

“Make it your habit to behold the Light without the glass, so that when the glass is shattered you may not be left blind.”