Rumi Quotes

Friend, we're traveling together.
Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you
one tiny spot of the beauty that cannot be spoken.
I'm like an ant that's gotten into the granary, ludicrously happy, and trying to lug out
a grain that's way too big.

I love you neither with my heart
nor with my mind.
My heart might stop
my mind can forget.
I love you with
my soul because
my soul never stops
or forgets.
-Rumi

Look carefully around you and recognize
the luminosity of souls.
Sit beside those who draw you to that.

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.

Woman is the light of God.

You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.

We were green: we ripened and grew golden.
The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown.
Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings.
We started sober: are love's startled drunkards.

You hide me in your cloak of nothingness
Reflect my ghost in your glass of being
I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream
Where your eternity briefly trembles.

May this marriage be blessed.
May this marriage be as sweet as milk and
honey.
May this marriage be as intoxicating as
old wine.
May this marriage be fruitful like a date tree.
May this marriage be full of laughter and
everyday a paradise.
May this marriage be a seal of compassion
for here and hereafter.
May this marriage be as welcome as the
full moon in the night sky.
Listen lovers, now you go on, as I become
silent and kiss this blessed night.

لست واحدا قائما بدأتك أيها الرفيق، بل إنك فلك وبحر عميق.

Day and night I guarded the pearl of my soul.
Now in this ocean of pearling currents,
I’ve lost track of which was mine.

خرج جوادٌ من مكانٍ غير معروف
حملنا حيث ذقنا هُنا العشق
وحتى لم نعد نحيا كذلك، هذا الطعم،
خمرٌ، نستقيه على الدوام

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

چنان مستم چنان مستم من امروز که از چنبر برون جستم من امروز
چنان چیزی که در خاطر نیابد چنانستم چنانستم من امروز
به جان با آسمان عشق رفتم به صورت گر در این پستم من امروز
گرفتم گوش عقل و گفتم ای عقل برون رو کز تو وارستم من امروز
بشوی ای عقل دست خویش از من که در مجنون بپیوستم من امروز
به دستم داد آن یوسف ترنجی که هر دو دست خود خستم من امروز
چنانم کرد آن ابریق پرمی که چندین خنب بشکستم من امروز
نمی‌دانم کجایم لیک فرخ مقامی کاندر و هستم من امروز
بیامد بر درم اقبال نازان ز مستی در بر او بستم من امروز
چو واگشت او پی او می‌دویدم دمی از پای ننشستم من امروز
چو نحن اقربم معلوم آمد دگر خود را بنپرستم من امروز
مبند آن زلف شمس الدین تبریز که چون ماهی در این شستم من امروز

And watch two men washing clothes,
one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony.

Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.