Rumi Quotes

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.

The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star.

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.

In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

هكذا أود أن أموت

في العشق الذي أكنه لك.

كقطع سحب

تذوب في ضوء الشمس.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.

An eye is meant to see things.
The soul is here for its own joy.

A head has one use: For loving a true love.
Feet: To chase after.

Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,
for learning what men have done and tried to do.

Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind
when it only wants to see why.

A lover is always accused of something.
But when he finds his love, whatever was lost
in the looking comes back completely changed.

At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door
and open the love-window.
The moon won't use the door,
only the window.

The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.

Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight is blind
and try to see a treasure in everyone.

Beauty surrounds us.

ليس العاشق مسلما أو مسيحيا،
أو جزءا من أي عقيدة.
دين العشق لا مذهب له
لتؤمن به أو لا تؤمن.

يا أخي أنت مجرد فكر
وما بقي منك عظام وجلد

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