Rumi

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

We are born of love; Love is our mother.

— Rumi

Every object, every being,

— Rumi

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing

— Rumi

Lovers find secret places

— Rumi

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

— Rumi

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

— Rumi

I will soothe you and heal you,

— Rumi

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

— Rumi

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

— Rumi

You think of yourself

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;

— Rumi

I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.

— Rumi

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

— Rumi

Reason is like an officer when the King appears; Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

— Rumi

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more — more unseen forms become manifest to him.

— Rumi

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

— Rumi

Come, come, whoever you are.Come, come again, come.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world;For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

— Rumi

The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.

— Rumi

He whose intellect overcomes his desire is higher than the angels; he whose desire overcomes his intellect is less than an animal.

— Rumi

The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.

— Rumi

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

— Rumi

I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

— Rumi

As quoted in "Rumi and Self-Discovery" by Ibrahim Gamard, in Islamica Magazine Issue 15, (Summer 2005)

— Rumi

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?

— Rumi

We have a way from this visible world to the Unseen, we are the rosebush of certainty's rose garden.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

— Rumi

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

— Rumi

The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.To regard the self as easy to subdue is a mistake.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

— Rumi

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you

— Rumi

If you dig a pit for others to fall into,you will fall into it yourself.

— Rumi

From "Wetness and Water"

— Rumi

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,are your own nature reflected in them.

— Rumi

The lion who breaks the enemy's rankscompared to the lion who overcomes himself.

— Rumi

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.

— Rumi

Were there no men of vision,all who are blind would be dead.

— Rumi

If you are wholly perplexed and in straits,have patience, for patience is the key to joy.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

If you are irritated by every rub,how will your mirror be polished?

— Rumi

Anyone in whom the troublemaking self has died,Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

— Rumi

There is no worse sickness for the soul,before self-complacency falls away.

— Rumi

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation? that root must be cherished with all one's might.

— Rumi

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.

— Rumi

Even though you're not equipped,equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.

— Rumi

If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon,wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

— Rumi

When you see anyone complainingtowards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

That which God said to the rose,and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

— Rumi

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

— Rumi

Many have been led astray by the Qur'an:for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

The lower self does not want anyone to receive anything from anybody else, and if it is aware of something receiving a special boon, it seeks to destroy it.

— Rumi

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

— Rumi

To Love is to reach God.To Love is to reach God.

— Rumi

When in Love, body, mind, heart and soul don't even exist.

— Rumi

Love rests on no foundation. with no beginning or end.

— Rumi

They will ask you what else can a Lover produce?

— Rumi

Give your weakness to one who helps.

— Rumi

My head is bursting the many faces of my Beloved.

— Rumi

There is a certain cloud, are lost in it.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

I always thought that and never knew it.

— Rumi

This is a gathering of Lovers.This is a gathering of Lovers.

— Rumi

I don't know where I am.at times I give birth to it.

— Rumi

Even if you lose yourself in wrathit is me, who is the culmination of your dreams.

— Rumi

Didn't I tell youit is me, who is the welcoming banner at the gate of your contentment.

— Rumi

Didn't I tell you?it is me, who is your comforting body of water.

— Rumi

Didn't I tell you?it is me, who is the source of your happiness.

— Rumi

The branch might seem like the fruit's origin: In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.

— Rumi

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

— Rumi

"There's no courage", The Prophet said, "before the war has begun." It's not the carpet he's attacking, but the dirt in it.

— Rumi

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

— Rumi

Love is the path and road of our Prophet

— Rumi

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's search for love and wisdom.

— Rumi

The fire of Love cooks me

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

You dance inside my chest,

— Rumi

By eating meagerly, you become clever and aware.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.

— Rumi

Dwell in the place where your companions are spiritual heroes,

— Rumi

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

— Rumi

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

— Rumi

We are born of love; Love is our mother.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

— Rumi

I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.

— Rumi

Be melting snow.

— Rumi

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.'

— Rumi

You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.

— Rumi

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

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?

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

There are no enemies, just hurting people.

— Rumi

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

— Rumi

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

— Rumi

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

— Rumi

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

— Rumi

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

— Rumi

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread.

— Rumi

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's search for love and wisdom.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

Do you know what you are?

— Rumi

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

— Rumi

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

— Rumi

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's search for love and wisdom.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

— Rumi

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

— Rumi

We are born of love; Love is our mother.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

— Rumi

I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

— Rumi

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.

— Rumi

A wealth you cannot imagine

— Rumi

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.'

— Rumi

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

— Rumi

You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.

— Rumi

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

— Rumi

Lovers find secret places

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

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?

— Rumi

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

— Rumi

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

— Rumi

Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?

— Rumi

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

— Rumi

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

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

— Rumi

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

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.

— Rumi

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

— Rumi