Rumi Quotes

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

When I am with you, everything is prayer.

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.

Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.

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

In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

Why are you so enchanted by this world
when a mine of gold lies within you?

لا تجزع من جرحك، وإلا فكيف للنور أن يتسلل إلى باطنك؟

لقد صارت الأيام تسعى فى أحزاننا بغير وقت، وأاصبحت قرينة للأحزان والمحن.
فإن مضت الأيام فقل لها اذهبى ولا خوف، ولتبق أنت يا من لا مثيل لك فى الطهر.

كل وجود إنما هو في وصاله

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore

All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

حين يطلق الصياد صفيره الذى يشبه صوت الطائر
فإن هدفه اصطياد ذلك الطائر
إذ يجعله يهبط إلى الأرض نحو الصوت ليجد نفسه واقعا فى الشرك
ذلك ما يفعله التافه الذى يستعمل لفة الدراويش ليغش البسطاء من الناس
إن أعمال التقاة من الناس ضوء ودفء
وعمل الأشرار خزى واحتيال.