Rumi Quotes

“Hearken to the reed-flute, how it complains, lamenting its banishment from its home.”

“Every one who is left far from his source wishes back the time when he was united with it.”

“Hail to thee, then, O Love, sweet madness! Thou who healest all our infirmities!”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.”

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

“Happy the moment when we are seated in the palace, thou and I, with two forms and with two figures but with one soul, thou and I.”

“What is to be done, O Moslems? For I do not recognise myself. I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr, nor Moslem. I am not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea.”

“I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.”

“He who knows the power of the dance dwells in God, for he knows how Love slays.”

“I died as inanimate matter and arose a plant; I died as a plant and rose again an animal. I died as an animal and arose a man. Why then should I fear to become less by dying?”

“When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.”

“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

“If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.”

“That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.”

“Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendour. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.”

“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”

“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.”

“Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.”

“There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognises two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.”

“Both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.”

“This is the essence of all sciences: that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.”

“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.”