Rumi Quotes

The moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door will open. Welcome difficulty as a familiar comrade. Joke with torment brought by the friend. Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, then are taken off. That undressing and the beautiful naked body underneath is the sweetness that comes after grief. The hurt you embrace becomes joy.

Into this new love, die
your way begins
on the other side
become the sky
take an axe to the prison wall,
escape
walk out like someone
suddenly born into color
do it now

Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.

"The world is a mountain. Whatever you say, it will echo it back to you. Don't say, "I sang nicely and the mountain echoed an ugly voice!" That is not possible. The human intellect is a place where hesitation and uncertainty take root. There is no way to overcome this hesitation except by falling in love."

Love is the cure,
for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain
until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.

In compassion and grace, be like the sun...
In concealing other's faults, be like the night...
In generosity and helping others, be like a river...
In anger and fury, be like dead...
In modesty and humility, be like the earth...
In tolerance, be like the sea...
Either appear as you are, or be as you appear..

Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.

No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower.
So the nightbirds will start singing.

كان حليقاً، لا لحية له، ولا حاجبين، ومع أن وجهه كان مكشوفاً كما ينبغي لوجه أي رجل أن يكون، فإن قسمات وجهه يكتنفها الغموض، لم يكن مظهره هو الذي فتني وجذب إنتباهي.

بیا تا قدر یک دیگر بدانیم
که تا ناگه ز یک دیگر نمانیم

چو مؤمن آینه مؤمن یقین شد
چرا با آینه ما روگرانیم

کریمان جان فدای دوست کردند
سگی بگذار ما هم مردمانیم

فسون قل اعوذ و قل هو الله
چرا در عشق همدیگر نخوانیم

غرض‌ها تیره دارد دوستی را
غرض‌ها را چرا از دل نرانیم

گهی خوشدل شوی از من که میرم
چرا مرده پرست و خصم جانیم

چو بعد از مرگ خواهی آشتی کرد
همه عمر از غمت در امتحانیم

کنون پندار مردم آشتی کن
که در تسلیم ما چون مردگانیم

چو بر گورم بخواهی بوسه دادن
رخم را بوسه ده کاکنون همانیم

خمش کن مرده وار ای دل ازیرا
به هستی متهم ما زین زبانیم

God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.
Each note is a need coming through one of us,
a passion, a longing pain.
Remember the lips
where the wind-breath originated,
and let your note be clear.
Don't try to end it.
Be your note.

لو رَغِبْتَ الحياةَ، اهجُر ضِفافَكَ

Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.

Didn't I tell you?
I am an ocean, you are a fish; do not go to the dry land,
it is me, who is your comforting body of water.

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere
When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.