Rumi Quotes

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.

The Sufi is hanging on to Muhammad, like Abu Bakr.

When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.

ليس لكل احد ان يكون محبوبا فالمحبوب يحتاج الي صفات وفضائل لا يرزقها كل انسان ، ولكن لكل انسان ان يأخذ نصيبه ف الحب ، وينعم به فإذا فاتك ياسيدي ان تكون محبوبا فلا يفتك ان تكون محبا، وان لم يكن من حظك ان تكون يوسف فمن يمنعك ان تكون يعقوب، ولو عرف المحبون ما ينعم به العشاق المتيمون لتمنوا مكانهم وخرجوا من صف المحبوبين السعداء الي صف المحبين البؤساء

Give your weakness to one who helps.

With love you don’t bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face.

Come, come, whoever you are, come.
Infidel, idolator, Wanderer, fire-worshipper, it doesn't matter, come.
Ours is not a convent of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times,
Come, come again.

Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.

The same wind that uproots trees
makes the grass shine.

The lordly wind loves the weakness
and the lowness of grasses.
Never brag of being strong.

The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are.
It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves.
It leaves the leaves alone.

THIS TORTURE

Why should we tell you our love stories
when you spill them together like blood in the dirt?

Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor,
or a fire we can’t see,

but how does saying that
push us through the top of the head into
the light above the head?

Love is not
an iron pot, so this boiling energy
won’t help.

Soul, heart, self.
Beyond and within those
is one saying,

How long before I’m free of this torture!

We gather at night to celebrate
being human. Sometimes we call out low
to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea,
but the sea does not get smaller! We
eat the clouds and evening light. We
are slaves tasting the royal wine.

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

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

Speak a new language
so that the world
will be a new world.

Lose yourself,
Lose yourself in this love.
When you lose yourself in this love,
you will find everything.

Lose yourself,
Lose yourself.
Do not fear this loss,
For you will rise from the earth
and embrace the endless heavens.

Lose yourself,
Lose yourself.
Escape from this earthly form,
For this body is a chain
and you are its prisoner.
Smash through the prison wall
and walk outside with the kings and princes.

Lose yourself,
Lose yourself at the foot of the glorious King. When you lose yourself
before the King
you will become the King.

Lose yourself,
Lose yourself.
Escape from the black cloud
that surrounds you.
Then you will see your own light
as radiant as the full moon.

Now enter that silence.
This is the surest way
to lose yourself. . . .

What is your life about, anyway? — Nothing but a struggle to be someone,
Nothing but a running from your own silence.