Rumi Quotes

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

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks
is a minor hero
compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,
are your own nature reflected in them.

If you dig a pit for others to fall into,
you will fall into it yourself.

If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.
To regard the self as easy to subdue is a mistake.

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

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace
to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

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.

I have endowed everyone with a temperament of his own, given everyone an idiom of his own; so that what is praise for him is blame for thee, what is honey for him is poison for thee, what is light for him is fire for thee, what is rose for him is thorn for thee, what is good for him is evil for thee, what is beautiful for him is ugly for thee. In the people of Hindustan the idiom of Hindustan is praiseworthy; in the people of Sind, the idiom of Sind is praiseworthy. I do not see the outward and the speech; I see the inward and the state [of feeling]. For the heart is the substance and speech an accident. So, the accident is subservient, the substance is the [real] object. The religion of love stands apart from all religions. For lovers the [only] religion and creed is God.

We have a way from this visible world to the Unseen, For we are the companions of Religions Messenger. We have a way from the house to the garden, we are the neighbor of the cypress and jasmine. Every day we come to the garden and see a hundred blossoms. In order to scatter them among the lovers, we will our robes to overflowing. Behold our words! They are the fragrance of those roses - we are the rosebush of certainty's rose garden.

Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey. The Prophet said "In this way you have no more faithful companion than your works." How can these works and this earning in the way of righteousness be accomplished without a master, O father? Can you practice the meanest profession in the world without a master's guidance? Whoever undertakes a profession without a master becomes the laughingstock of city and town.

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?

I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of [Muhammad], the Chosen one. If anyone quotes anything except this from my sayings, I am quit of him and outraged by these words