Rumi Quotes

My sweet heart,
you have aroused my passion,
your touch has filled me with desire,
I am no longer separate from you,
these are precious moments,
I beseech you,
don’t let me wait,

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

You hurt and have sharp desire,
yet your presence is a healing calm.

كيف يمكن أن يغادر هذا العالمَ جزءٌ من هذا العالم؟
كيف يمكن أن يترك البللُ المياه؟
ما يجرحك، يباركك…
الظلام شمعتك.
حدودك مسعاك.
يمكنني شرح ذلك، لكنْ قد ينكسرُ
الزجاجُ الذي يغطِّي قلبك
ولا شئء يُصلح ذلك.
هل تكفي هذه الكلمات
أو عليَّ أن أعصرَ منها أكثر؟

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it
will feed every corner of your life.

I would love to kiss you.
The price of kissing is your life.

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

the soul has been given it's own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.

I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.

Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle

True beauty is a ray
That springs from the sacred depths of the soul,
and illuminates the body, just as life
springs from the kernel of a stone and
gives colour and scent to a flower.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.

If the wine drinker
has a deep gentleness in him,
he will show that when drunk.
But if he has hidden anger and arrogance,
those appear.