Rumi Quotes

There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.

We talk about this and that. There’s no rest except on these branching moments.

Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.

Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.

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

Leave that which is not,
but appears to be. Seek that which is,
but is not apparent.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

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

There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside.

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

Let yourself becoming living poetry

You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck!

I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine

انظر إلى وجه كلّ إنسان، وكن منتبهاً، فلعلّك تغدو من التأمل عارفاً بالوجوه.
ولما كان كثير من الأبالسة يظهرون في صورة الإنسان، فليس يليق بالمرء أن يمدّ يده لكلّ يد.
ذلك لأن الصياد يصطنع الصفير، لكي يوقع الطائر في حبائله.
فيسمع الطائر صوت أبناء جنسه. فيجيء من الهواء فيجد الشبكة والسكين.
إن الرجل اللئيم يسرق لغة الدراويش ليتلو على البسطاء أسطورة منها يخدعهم بها ~