Rumi Quotes & Poems

Love is the Water of Life.Rumi

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.Rumi

Because of loveI have becomethe giver of light.Rumi

It is Love that holds everything together, and it is the everything also.Rumi

I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo nourish you.Rumi

Speak a new languageso that the worldwill be a new world.Rumi

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

There is some kiss we want with our whole lives,the touch of spirit on the body.Rumi

I am in Love with Loveand Love is in love with me.My body is in Love with the souland the soul is in Love with my body.I opened my arms to Loveand Love embraced me like a lover.Rumi

Gamble everything for love,if you’re a true human being.Rumi

Every object, every being,is a jar full of delight.Rumi

The way you make loveis the way God will be with you.Rumi

Love rests on no foundation.It is an endless ocean,with no beginning or end.Rumi

Oh, my friend,all that you see of meis just a shell,and the rest belongs to love.Rumi

This divine love,beckons usto a world beyondonly lovers can seewith their eyes of fiery passion.Rumi

Dear God,Let all Lovers be contentGive them happy endingsLet their lives be celebrationLet their hearts dance in the fire of your Love.Rumi

The lover is a king above all kings,unafraid of death, not at all interested in a golden crown.The dervish has a pearl concealed under his patched cloak.Why should he go begging door to door?Rumi

Whatever pearl you seek,look for the pearl within the pearl!Rumi

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.Rumi

Through Love all that is bitter will be sweetThrough Love all that is copper will be gold.Through Love all dregs will turn to purest wineThrough Love all pain will turn to medicine.Through Love the dead will all become alive.Through Love the king will turn into a slave!Rumi

The moon has become a dancerat this festival of love.Rumi

Love is the One who masters all things;I am mastered totally by Love.Rumi

They will ask youwhat you have produced.Say to them,except for Love,what else can a Lover produce?Rumi

From the beginning of my life, I have been looking for your face,but today, I’ve seen it.Today I have seen the charm, the beauty, the unfathomablegrace of the face that I was looking for.Rumi

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty and wishto see you with a hundred eyes.Rumi

My heart has burned with passion and has searched forever forthis wondrous beauty that I now behold.Rumi

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.Rumi

Know that my beloved is hidden from everyoneKnow that she is beyond the belief of all beliefsKnow that in my heart she is as clear as the MOON

Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul.Rumi

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,there is a field. I’ll meet you there.Rumi

You must marry your soul. That wedding is the way.Rumi

You knock at the door of Reality.You shake your thought-wings, loosenyour shouldersand open.Rumi

There is something in usThat has nothing to do with night and day,Diamonds which come from no earthly mine.Rumi

If the sun were not in love, he would have no brightness,the side of the hill no grass on it.The ocean would come to rest somewhere.Rumi

This is the prayer of each:You are the source of my life.You separate essence from mud.You honor my soul.You bring rivers from themountain springs.You brighten my eyes.The wine you offertakes me out of myselfinto the self we share.Doing that is religion.Rumi

I was youand never knew it.Rumi

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.Rumi

Everything in the universe is within you.Ask all from yourself.Rumi

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.First, to let go of life.In the end, to take a step without feet.RumiCome, come, whoever you are.Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving, it doesn’t matter.Ours is not a caravan of despair.Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times.Come, yet again, come, come.RumiInscribed on Rumi’s shrine in Konya, Turkey.

The heart has its own language.The heart knows a hundred thousandways to speak.Rumi

Heart and love have become friends.Rumi

Wherever you are,and whatever you do,be in love.Rumi

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.Rumi

The universe and the light of the stars come through me.Rumi

And from beyond the intellect, beautiful Lovecomes dragging her skirts, a cup of wine in her hand.Rumi

Close both eyesto see with the other eye.Rumi

This outward Spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.Rumi

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.Rumi

The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.Rumi

The ruby and the sunrise are one.Rumi

Why do you stay in prisonwhen the door is so wide open?Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence.Rumi

Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.Rumi

The beauty of the heartis the lasting beauty:its lips give to drinkof the water of life.Rumi

Love said to me,there is nothing that is not me.Be silent.Rumi

I worship the moon.Tell me of the soft glow of acandle lightand the sweetness of my moon.Rumi

Oh Beloved,take me.Liberate my soul.Fill me with your love andrelease me from the two worlds.If I set my heart on anything but youlet fire burn me from inside.Oh Beloved,take away what I want.Take away what I do.

Take away what I need.Take away everythingthat takes me from you.Rumi

In the early dawn of happinessyou gave me three kissesso that I would wake upto this moment of love.Rumi

Love is that that never sleeps, nor even rests,nor stays for long with those that do.Love is language that cannot be said,or heard.Rumi

Let us fall in love againand scatter gold dust all over the world.Rumi

There is no salvation for the soulbut to fall in Love.Only lovers can escapeout of these two worlds.This was ordained in creation.Only from the heartcan you reach the sky:The Rose of Glorycan grow only from the heart.Rumi

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.O traveler, if you are in search of thatDon’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.Rumi

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.Rumi

God turns you from one feeling to anotherAnd teaches by the means of opposites,so that you will have two wings to fly,Not one.Rumi

Sit only under a treethat is full of blossoms.Rumi

Become the Light.Rumi

The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.Rumi

If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.Rumi

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

No mirror ever became iron again;No bread ever became wheat;No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.Become the light.Rumi

We rarely hear the inward music,but we’re all dancing to it neverthelessdirected by the one who teaches us,the pure joy of the sun,our music master.Rumi

Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.Rumi

But knowing dependson the time spent looking!Rumi

Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.Rumi

There is a candle in your heart,ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul,ready to be filled.

You feel it, don’t you?Rumi

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.Rumi

I was a secret treasure of kindness and generosity,and I wished this treasure to be known,so I created a mirror: its shining face, the heart;it’s darkened back, the world;The back would please you if you’ve never seen the face.RumiIn the orchard and rose gardenI long to see your face.In the taste of SweetnessI long to kiss your lips.In the shadows of passionI long for your love.Rumi

You are the Essence of the Essence,The intoxication of Love.I long to sing your praisesbut stand mutewith the agony of wishing in my heart.Rumi

Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.Rumi

The real beloved is your beginning and your end.When you find that one,you’ll no longer expect anything else.Rumi

Of the book of GodThou art a copying,A mirror, wherein showedThe beauty of the King.All God ever wroughtDwelleth not apart;All thou hast ever sought,Find it in thy heart.Rumi

Those who don’t feel this Lovepulling them like a river,those who don’t drink dawnlike a cup of spring wateror take in sunset like supper,those who don’t want to change,let them sleep.Rumi

Withpassion pray. Withpassion work. With passion make love.With passion eat and drink and dance and play.Why look like a dead fishin this oceanofGod?Rumi

Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?I cannot stop asking.Rumi

All day I think about it, then at night I say it.Where did I come from,And what am I supposed to be doing?I have no idea.My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that,And I intend to end up there.Rumi

The Lover comes, the Lover comes!Open the way for him!He’s looking for a heart,Let’s show him one.I scream“What you come to hunt is me!”He says laughingly,‘I’m here not to hunt you but to save you.’Rumi

Dance, when you’re broken open.Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.Dance in the middle of the fighting.Dance in your blood.

Dance, when you’re perfectly free.Rumi

From the beginning of my lifeI have been looking for your facebut today I have seen itToday I have seenthe charm, the beauty,the unfathomable graceof the facethat I was looking for.Rumi

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty,and wish to see you with a hundred eyes.I am in the house of mercy,and my heart is a place of prayer.Rumi

In my vertigo, in my dizziness, in my drunken haze,whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel,I saw myself as the source of existence,I was there at the beginning and I was the spirit of love.Rumi

But learnthis customfrom the flower:silenceyour tongue.Rumi

The garden of Love is green without limitand yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy.Love is beyond either condition:without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.Rumi

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.Rumi

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.If it were always a fist or always stretched open,you would be paralyzed.Your deepest presence

is in every small contracting and expanding,the two as beautifully balanced and coordinatedas bird wings.Rumi

Your bright face is my dayYour dark curls bring the nightIf you do not let me near youI promise not go to sleep nor riseYour magnificence has made me a wonderYour charm has taught me the way of loveI am the progeny of AbrahamI’ll find my way through fire.Rumi

In the body of the world, they say, there is a souland you are that.Rumi

I would love to kiss you.The price of kissing is your life.Now my loving is running toward my life shouting,What a bargain, let’s buy it.Rumi

Late by myself, in the boat by myselfNo light and no land anywherecloud cover thick, I try to stayjust above the surface, but I am already underand living in the ocean of your love.Rumi

Since I was cut from the reedbed,I have made this crying sound.Anyone apart from someone he lovesunderstands what I say.Anyone pulled from a sourcelongs to go back.Rumi

Is it your facethat adorns the garden?Is it your fragrancethat intoxicates this garden?Is it your spirit

that has made this brooka river of wine?Rumi

To Love is to reach God.Rumi

There is a candle in your heart,ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul,ready to be filled.You feel it, don’t you?Rumi

A rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorn.Rumi

There are amazing things in the ocean,and there is one who is the ocean.Rumi

Let the beauty we love be what we do.There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.Rumi

There is no Love greater than Love with no object.For then you, yourself, have become love itself.Rumi

Because of your loveI have lost my sobrietyI am intoxicatedby the madness of love.Rumi

In the gardenI see only your faceFrom trees and blossomsI inhale only your fragrance.Rumi

Drunk with the ecstasy of loveI can no longer tell the differencebetweeen drunkard and drinkBetween lover and Beloved.Rumi

That’s how you came here, like a starwithout a name. Move across the night skywith those anonymous lights.Rumi

Because the idol is your face,I have become an idolater.Because the wine is from your cup,I’ve become a drunkard.In the existence of your love,I have become non-existent.This non-existence, linked to you,is better than all existence.Rumi

Many hearts have sought refuge from this love,but it drags and pulls them to its own refuge.RumiLove so needs to love,that it will endure almost anything,even abuse,just to flicker for a moment.Rumi

I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as plant and rose to animal,I died as animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?Rumi

Are you searching for the river of your soul?Then come out of your prison.Leave the streamand join the riverthat flows into the ocean.Rumi

Love is reckless; not reason.Reason seeks a profit.Having died of self-interest,Love risks everything and asks for nothing.Rumi

The minute I heard my first love story,I started looking for you, not knowing

how blind that was.Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere,they’re in each other all along.Rumi

My place is the Placeless, my trace is Traceless,‘Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the BelovedRumi

You were born with potentialYou were born with goodness and trustYou were born with ideals and dreamsYou were born with greatnessYou were born with wingsYou are not meant for crawling, so don’t.You have wingsLearn to use them, and fly.Rumi

I long to escape the prison of my egoand lose myself in you.Rumi

A moment of happiness,you and I sitting on the verandah,apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.We feel the flowing water of life here,you and I, with the garden’s beautyand the birds singing.Rumi

That which God said to the rose,and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty,He said to my heart,and made it a hundred times more beautiful.Rumi

From the clear center of my heartthere are no edges to my loving youI’ve heard it said there’s a window that opensfrom one mind to anotherbut if there were no wall,what need of installing a window?Rumi

If the wind had taken me to you,I would have held tight to the skirts of the wind.I miss you so much that I would fly to you faster than a bird;But how can a bird with a clipped wing fly?Rumi

There comes a holyand transparent timewhen every touchof beautyopens the heartto tears.This is the timethe Beloved of heavenis brought tenderly on earth.This is the timeof the openingof the Rose.Rumi

Remember any night of all of our nightsbut don’t remember things I’ve said.Rumi

What was whispered to the roseTo break it openLast nightWas whispered to my heart.Rumi

Stop learning.Start knowing.The rose opensAnd opensAnd when it fallsFalls outward.Rumi

SilenceYou are the diamond in methe Jewel of my real wealth!From your soft earthgrow thousandsof rose gardenswhose perfumes

drown mein my heart.Rumi

I was deadI came aliveI was tearsI became laughterall because of love.Rumi

love saidyou are a candleattracting everyonegathering every onearound you.Rumi

love saidyou already haveyour own wingsI will not give youmore feathers.Rumi

My heart is burning with loveAll can see this flameMy heart is pulsing with passionlike waves on an ocean.Rumi

I’m at home wherever I amAnd in the room of loversI can see with closed eyesthe beauty that dances.Rumi

Behind the veilsintoxicated with loveI too dance the rhythmof this moving worldI have lost my sensesin my world of lovers.Rumi

Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,The heart that is not in love will fail the test.Rumi

Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door.She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side.Seeing and holding the lockets of her hairMy face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.Rumi

When I am with you, we stay up all night,When you’re not here, I can’t get to sleep.Praise God for these two insomnias!And the difference between them.Rumi

I have phrases and whole pages memorized,but nothing can be told of love.You must wait until you and Iare living together.In the conversation we’ll havethen…be patient…then.Rumi

When the sweet glance of my true love caught my eyes,Like alchemy, it transformed my copper-like soul.I searched for Him with a thousand hands,He stretched out His arms and clutched my feet.#Rumi

There is a smile and a gentlenessinside. When I learned the nameand address of that, I went to whereyou sell perfume. I begged you notto trouble me so with longing. Comeout and play! Flirt more naturally.Teach me how to kiss. On the grounda spread blanket, flame that’s caughtand burning well, cumin seeds browning,I am inside all of this with my soul.Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy,absentminded. Someone soberwill worry about things going badly.Let the lover be.Rumi

When your chest is free of your limiting ego,Then you will see the ageless Beloved.You can not see yourself without a mirror;Look at the Beloved, He is the brightest mirror.Rumi

We are the mirror as well as the face in it.We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity.We are pain and what cures pain both.We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.Rumi

I want to hold you close like a lute so we can cry out with loving.You would rather throw stones at a mirror?I am your mirror, and here are the stones.Rumi

You bewilder us with your grace,all evils transformed into goodness.You are the master alchemist.You light the fire of love in Earth and Sky,in heart and soul of every being.Through your loving,existence and non-existence merge.All opposites unite.All that is profane becomes sacred again.Rumi

When it’s cold and raining,you are more beautiful.And the snow brings meeven closer to your lips.The inner secret, that which was never born,you are that freshness, and I am with you now.I can’t explain the goings,or the comings. You enter suddenly,and I am nowhere again.Inside the majesty.Rumi

When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for one breath,In that moment you will find your true destiny.Alas, don’t spoil this precious momentMoments like this are very, very rare.Rumi

And just the momentwhen you are all confusedleaps forth a voicehold me closeI’m love andI’m always yours.RumiBoth light and shadow are the dance of Love.Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God’s secrets.Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless.Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.Rumi

A lover knows only humility, he has no choice.He steals into your alley at night, he has no choice.He longs to kiss every lock of your hair, don’t fret,he has no choice.In his frenzied love for you, he longs to break the chains of his imprisonment,he has no choice.Rumi

A lover asked his beloved: Do you love yourself more than you love me?Beloved replied: I have died to myself and I live for you.I’ve disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you.I’ve forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I’ve become a scholar.I’ve lost all my strength, but from your power I am able.I love myself…I love you.I love you…I love myself.Rumi

I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love.Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars.You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love.Even so, you have always been connected to me.Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest.I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond,

I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me,leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.Rumi

You have been a prisoner of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood.Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance.Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.Rumi

I desire you more than food or drink.My body my senses my mind hunger for your taste.I can sense your presence in my heart although you belong to all the world.I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you.Rumi

I am so small I can barely be seen.How can this great love be inside me?Look at your eyes. They are small,But they see enormous things.Rumi

Oh lovers, where are you going?Who are you looking for?Your beloved is right here.She lives in your own neighborhood.Her face is veiled.She hides behind screens calling for you,while you search and lose yourselfin the wilderness and the desert.Cease looking for flowers,there blooms a garden in your own home.While you go looking for trinkets,your treasure house awaits youin your own being.There is no need for suffering, God is here!Rumi

In love…nothing is eternal, but drinking your wine.There is no reason for bringing my life to you,other than losing it. I said, I just want to know you,and then disappear. She said, knowing me does not mean dying.Rumi

This is how I would die into the love I have for you:As pieces of cloud dissolve in Sunlight.Rumi

Look at me and hear me,because I am here…just for that!Rumi

Oh God! I have discovered love!How marvelous! How good!How beautiful it is! My body is warm from the heat of this love.Rumi

In love, nothing is eternal but drinking your wine,There is no reason for bringing my life to you,other then losing it.I said ‘I just want to know you, and then disappear’She said,”Knowing me does not mean dying”Rumi

The moon has become a dancerat this festival of love.This dance of light,This sacred blessing,This divine love,beckons usto a world beyondonly lovers can seewith their eyes of fiery passion.They are the chosen oneswho have surrendered.Once they were particles of lightnow they are the radiant sun.They have left behindthe world of deceitful games.They are the privileged loverswho create a new worldwith their eyes of burning passion.Rumi

My heart is on fireIn my madness I roam the desertThe flames of my passiondevour the wind and the sky

My cries of longingMy wails of sorrowAre tormenting my soulYou wait patientlyLooking into my intoxicated eyesYou accept my passionwith the serenity of LoveYou are the Master of ExistenceOne day I shall be a Lover like YouRumi

Since you will comeand throw kissesat my tombstone laterwhy not give them to me nowthis is methat same person.Rumi

The sky was litby the splendor of the moonSo powerfulI fell to the groundYour lovehas made me sureI am ready to forsakethis worldly lifeand surrender to the magnificenceof your Being.Rumi

Oh lovers, where are you going?Who are you looking for?Your beloved is right here.Rumi

Cease looking for flowers,there blooms a garden in your own home.Rumi

My love for you has driven me insaneI wander aimlessly the ruins of my life, my old self a stranger to meBecause of your love I have broken with my pastMy longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage

I look for you in my innermost being.Rumi

Die, die, die in this love.If you die in this love your soul will be renewed.Rumi

You come to us from another worldFrom beyond the stars and void of space.Transcendent. Pure. Of unimaginable beauty.Bringing with you the essence of Love.You transform all who are touched by you.Mundane concerns, troubles and sorrowsDissolve in your presence.Bringing joy to ruler and ruled. To peasant and king.Rumi

Tonight is a night of union for the stars and of scattering,scattering, since a bride is coming from the skies, consisting of a full moon.Rumi

You amuse me with your touchalthough I can’t see your hands.You have kissed me with tendernessalthough I haven’t seen your lipsYou are hidden from me.But it is you who keeps me alivePerhaps the time will comewhen you will tire of kissesI shall be happyeven for insults from youI only ask that youkeep some attention on me.Rumi

Thirst drove me down to the waterwhere I drank the moon’s reflection.Rumi

The agony of loversburns with the fire of passion.Lovers leave traces of where they’ve been.The wailing of broken hearts

is the doorway to God.Rumi

The wine we really drink is our own blood.Our bodies ferment in these barrels.We give everything for a glass of this.We give our minds for a sip.Rumi

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,let me merge with you.Rumi

Come to the orchid in Spring.There is light and wine, and sweetheartsin the pomegranate flowers.If you do not come, these do not matter.If you do come, these do not matter.Rumi

I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next,did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story.My place is the placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul.I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as oneand that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner,only that breath breathing human being.Rumi

I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.Rumi

Nightingales are put in cagesbecause their songs give pleasure.Whoever heard of keeping a crow?Rumi

Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.Rumi

Pale sunlight,pale the wall.Love moves away.The light changes.I need more gracethan I thought.Rumi

I burn each second of my life to love,Each second of my life burns out, in love,In each leaping second, love lives afresh.Rumi

I have a thirsty fish in methat can never find enoughof what it’s thirsty for!Rumi

A house of love with no limits,a presence more beautiful than venus or the moon,a beauty whose image fills the mirror of the heart.Rumi

We are the night ocean filledWith glints of light. We are the spaceBetween the fish and the moon,While we sit here together.Rumi

I’ve torn the cloth to shredsand thrown it away.If you’re not completely naked,wrap your beautiful robe of wordsaround you,and sleep.Rumi

There is only one way to win him,this Beloved of mine –Become his.Rumi

The springtime of Lovers has come,that this dust bowl may become a garden;the proclamation of heaven has come,that the bird of the soul may rise in flight.

The sea becomes full of pearls,the salt marsh becomes sweet as kauthar,the stone becomes a diamond from the mine,the body becomes wholly soul.Rumi

With Your sweet Soul, this soul of minehas merged as water does with wine.Who can part the water from the wine,or me from You when we combine?You have become my greater self;how can smallness limit me?You’ve taken on my being,how shall I not take on Yours?Forever, You have claimed methat forever I may know You’re mine.RumiYour love has pierced me to the depths,its ecstasy entwines both bone and nerve.Rumi

O Sun, fill our house once more with light!Make happy all your friends and blind your foes!Rise from behind the hill, transform the stonesTo rubies and the sour grapes to wine!O Sun, make our vineyard fresh again,And fill the steppes with houris and green cloaks!Physician of the lovers, heaven’s lamp!Rescus the lovers! Help the suffering!Show but your face – the world is filled with light!But if you cover it, it’s the darkest night!Rumi

I said,‘O sweet beloved,you are the refuge of my soul.’He said, ‘If you belong to me,don’t talk of your own soul.’I said, ‘Why do you cut mewith your sharp words?’He said, ‘My words wouldn’t hurt youif you weren’t in love with yourself.’Rumi

Beating your wings and feathers,you broke free from this cage.Rising up to the skyyou attained the world of the soul.Rumi

O heart, what a wonderful bird you are.Seeking divine heights,Flapping your wings,you smashed the pointed spears of your enemy.Rumi

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.Don’t go back to sleep.You must ask for what you really want.Don’t go back to sleep.People are going back and forth across the doorsillwhere the two worlds touch.The door is round and open.Don’t go back to sleep.Rumi

never lose hopewhen the Belovedsends you away.If you’re abandonedif you’re left hopelesstomorrow for sureyou’ll be called again.If the door is shutright in your facekeep waiting with patiencedon’t leave right away.Seeing your patienceyour love will soonsummon you with graceraise you like a champion.Rumi

Should Love’s heart rejoice unless I burn?For my heart is Love’s dwelling.If You will burn Your house, burn it, Love!Who will say, ‘It’s not allowed’?Burn this house thoroughly!

The lover’s house improves with fire.From now on I will make burning my aim,From now on I will make burning my aim,for I am like the candle: burning only makes me brighter.Abandon sleep tonight; traverse fro one nightthe region of the sleepless.Look upon these lovers who have become distraughtand like moths have died in union with the One Beloved.Look upon this ship of God’s creaturesand see how it is sunk in Love.Rumi

Sometimes I wonder, sweetest love, if youWere a mere dream in along winter night,A dream of spring-days, and of golden lightWhich sheds its rays upon a frozen heart;A dream of wine that fills the drunken eye.And so I wonder, sweetest love, if IShould drink this ruby wine, or rather weep;Each tear a bezel with your face engraved,A rosary to memorize your name…There are so many ways to call you back-Yes, even if you only were a dream.Rumi

Once a beloved asked her lover: ‘Friend,You have seen many places in the world!Now – which of all these cities was the best?’He said: ‘The city where my sweetheart lives!’Rumi

From myself I am copper,through You, friend, I am gold.From myself I’m a stone, butthrough You I am a gem!Rumi

Lover whispers to my ear,‘Better to be a prey than a hunter.Make yourself My fool.Stop trying to be the sun and become a speck!Dwell at My door and be homeless.Don’t pretend to be a candle, be a moth,so you may taste the savor of Life

and know the power hidden in serving.’Rumi

I believe in loveI swear by lovebelieve me my lovehow longlike a prisoner of griefcan I beg for mercy.Rumi

Show me your faceI craveflowers and gardensopen your lipsI cravethe taste of honeycome out frombehind the cloudsI desire a sunny face.Rumi

in every breathif you’re the centerof your own desiresyou’ll lose the graceof your belovedbut if in every breathyou blow awayyour self claimthe ecstasy of lovewill soon arrive.Rumi

in every breathif you’re the centerof your own thoughtsthe sadness of autumnwill fall on youbut if in every breathyou strip nakedjust like a winterthe joy of spring

will grow from within.Rumi

all your unfulfilled desiresare from your greedfor gain of fulfillmentslet go of them alland they will be sent as gifts.Rumi

fall in love withthe agony of lovenot the ecstasythen the belovedwill fall in love with you.Rumi

A true Lover doesn’t follow any one religion,be sure of that.Since in the religion of Love,there is no irreverence or faith.When in Love,body, mind, heart and soul don’t even exist.Become this,fall in Love,and you will not be separated again.Rumi

Before coming to this world we were in heaven.We were friends of the angels.There is our real homeland, and we will return to it.Rumi

I will soothe you and heal you.I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.Rumi

You twist my heart, dwell in my mindand fill my eyes, you are my joyI can’t be without you.You are my sleep, my rest, the water I drink.You are my clarity, my dignity, my worldI can’t be without you.Rumi

Your fragrant breathlike the morning breezehas come to the stillness of the gardenYou have breathed new life into me.Rumi

The world is a prison and we are the prisoners: dig a hole in the prison and let yourself out!Rumi

The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.Rumi

In truth everything and everyoneIs a shadow of the Beloved,And our seeking is His seekingAnd our words are His words…We search for Him here and there,while looking right at Him.Sitting by His side, we ask:‘O Beloved, where is the Beloved?’Rumi

He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, ‘Live!’Rumi

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.Rumi

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.Rumi

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.Rumi

I bow to you for the dust of your feetIs the crown on my headAnd as I walk towards youEvery step I take is a blessing.Rumi

Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.Rumi

O tongue, you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.Rumi

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.Rumi

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them. As the Prophet said, ‘The faithful are mirrors to one another.’Rumi

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.Rumi

If you are wholly perplexed and in straits,have patience, for patience is the key to joy.Rumi

Dissolve in the Being who is everything.Rumi

There is no worse sickness for the soul,O you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.Rumi

The world’s flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.Rumi

How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been a heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!Rumi

O heart, if you want to join us,raise yourselfto the dome of the inner skyEnter the fortress that no one can break.Rumi

Why should I be wearywhen every cell of my body is bursting with life?

Why should I be a donkey’s slavewhen I ride upon a magical horse?Why should I be less than the Moonwhen there are no scorpions at my feet?Why should I stay at the bottom of a wellwhen a strong rope is in my hand?Rumi

I am the rays of the Sundancing through the windows of every house.Rumi

I am the glorious Sun,the ocean laden with pearls.Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.Rumi

The truth of what you seeis written all over your face!Rumi

I come to you without me, come to me without you.Self is the thorn in the sole of the soul.Merge with others,If you stay in self, you are a grain, you are a drop,If you merge with others, you are an ocean, you are a mine.Rumi

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not HinduBuddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religionor cultural system. I am not from the Eastor the West, not out of the ocean or upfrom the ground, not natural or ethereal, notcomposed of elements at all. I do not exist,am not an entity in this world or the next,did not descend from Adam or Eve or anyorigin story. My place is placeless, a traceof the traceless. Neither body or soul.I belong to the beloved, have seen the twoworlds as one and that one call to and know,first, last, outer, inner, only thatbreath breathing human being.Rumi

I drank that wine of which the soul is its vessel. Its ecstacy has stolen my intellect away. A light came and kindled a flame in the depth of my soul. A light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly.Rumi

In generosity and helping others be like a river.In compassion and grace be like sun.In concealing others’ faults be like night.In anger and fury be like dead.In modesty and humility be like earth.In tolerance be like a sea.Either exist as you are or be as you look.Rumi

Let silence take you to the core of life.Rumi

The soil is faithful to its trust: whateveryou have sown in it, you reap the same.But until springtime brings the touch of God,the soil does not reveal its secrets.Rumi

He breathes into my earuntil my soultakes on His fragrance.He is the soul of my soul.Rumi

Close the language-door,and open the love-windowThe moon won’t use the door,only the window.Rumi

Go my friendBestow your loveEven on your foesIf you touch their heartsWhat do you think will happen.Rumi

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.Rumi

In the midst of making form, lovemade this form that melts form,with love for the door,soul the vestibule.Rumi

Watch the dust grains movingin the light near the window.their dance is our dance.Rumi

I have died many times, but your breathmade me alive again.Rumi

I am the Spirit Moonwith no place.You do not see me for I am hiddeninside the soul.Rumi

I am the garden of all gardensI speak as the King of all flowersI am the spring of all waters.My words are like a ship and the seais their meaning.Come to me and I will take youto the depths of spirit.Rumi

My soul is screaming in ecstasyEvery fiber of my beingis in love with youYour effulgencehas lit a fire in my heart.Rumi

My arrow of lovehas arrived at the targetI am in the house of mercyand my heartis a place of prayer.Rumi

No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight

from here.Rumi

A thorn in the foot is hard to find.What about a thorn in the heart?If everyone saw the thorn in his heart,when would sorrow gain the upper hand?Rumi

Don’t take a wooden sword into battle. Go, find one of steel; then march forward with joy.Rumi

Love, the life-giving garden of this world.RumiWherever Beauty looks,Love is also there.Rumi

Beauty and Love are as body and soul.Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond.They have togethersince the beginning of time-Side by side, step by step.Rumi

This is a gathering of Lovers.In this gatheringthere is no high, no low,no smart, no ignorant,no special assembly,no grand discourse,no proper schooling required.There is no master,no disciple.Rumi

Patience is the key to joy.Rumi

You think the shadow is the substance.Rumi

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.Rumi

People of the world don’t look at themselves, and so they blame one another.Rumi

One need not worry or fret about any secret magic to begin to unlock her inner soul. It will respond to the one who seeks it.Rumi

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

In your lightI learn how to love.In your beauty, how to make poems.You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you.Rumi

With every breathI plant the seeds of devotion –I am a farmer of the heart.Rumi

Every momentI shape my destiny with a chisel –I am the carpenter of my own soul.Rumi

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now,Be all – worlds dissolve into yourstainless endless radiance,Frail living leaves burn with your brighterthan cold stares –Make me your servant, your breath, your core.Rumi

Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.Rumi

I ama sculptor, a molder of form.In every moment I shape an idol.But then, in front of you, I melt them downI can rouse a hundred formsand fill them with spirit,

but when I look into your face,I want to throw them in the fire.Rumi

My souls spills into yours and is blended.Because my soul has absorbed your fragrance,I cherish it.Rumi

I merge with my Belovedwhen I participate in love.Rumi

In this house of mud and water,my heart has fallen to ruins.Enter this house, my Love,or let me leave.Rumi

Because your sighshave fermented my bloodI need no wine.Rumi

I begin the Night Journey in your eyestoward the wild desert fragranceI longed for all day.Rumi

We are each others’ searchfor what’s between our mirrors.Rumi

On the wick of your eye, you lit me:I danced out in your seeing.From the golden oil in my bonesI kindled you.Rumi

A soul for my soul,you gushedthrough my hollow places.Anoint me now! Stream downthis broken necklaceof dangling pearlsfrom throat to thigh.

Unite the sea and setting sun.Rumi

When dawn comes, we’ll whisperwhich of us was stillness,which the dancer.Rumi

Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.Rumi

What is the body? That shadow of a shadowof your love, that somehow containsthe entire universe.Rumi

There is no reality but God,says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.Rumi

I can’t stop pointingto the beauty.Every moment and place says,‘Put this design in your carpet!’Rumi

I am filled with you.Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul.There’s no room for lack of trust, or trust.Nothing in this existence but that existence.Rumi

A prince is justa conceit until he does something with generosity.Rumi

Why use bitter soup for healingwhen sweet water is everywhere?Rumi

I am God’s Lion, not the lion of passion….I have no longingexcept for the One.When a wind of personal reaction comes,I do not go along with it.Rumi

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:every success depends upon focusing the heart.Rumi

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth and handicraft,wasn’t it first merely a thought and a quest?Rumi

My heart is expanding a thousand fold.Every cell,taking wings,flies about the world.All seek separatelythe many faces of my Beloved.RumiOh soul,you worry too much.You have seen your own strength.You have seen your own beauty.You have seen your golden wings.Of anything less,why do you worry?You are in truththe soul, of the soul, of the soul.Rumi

The branch might seem like the fruit’s origin:In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.Rumi

Good and bad are mixed. If you don’t have both,you don’t belong with us.Rumi

Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.Rumi

Every tree and plant in the meadowseemed to be dancing,those which average eyes would seeas fixed and still.Rumi

Observe the wonders as they occur around you.Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry

moving through, and be silent.Rumi

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?What do you know of Love except the name?Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.Rumi

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:every success depends upon focusing the heart.Rumi

Every rose that is sweet-scented within,That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal.Rumi

My head is burstingwith the joy of the unknown.Rumi

How very closeis your soul with mineI know for sureeverything you thinkgoes through my mind.Rumi

Joyful the moment when we sat in the bower, Thou and I;In two forms and with two faces – with one soul, Thou and I.The colour of the garden and the song of the birds give the elixir of immortalityThe instant we come into the orchard, Thou and I.The stars of Heaven come out to look upon us –We shall show the moon herself to them, Thou and I.Thou and I, with no ‘Thou’ or ‘I’, shall become one through our tasting;Happy, safe from idle talking, Thou and I.The spirited parrots of heaven will envy us –Wen we shall laugh in such a way, Thou and I.This is stranger, that Thou and I, in this corner here…Are both in one breath here and there – Thou and I.Rumi

Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.Rumi

Your beauty is glory in nakedness, the meltOf smooth skin unsullied with petulant jewelsAnd the spoiling touch of silk. Your delicate faceIs as pure as the milk of the full moon.Rumi

There is a sun within every person,the you we call companion.Rumi

Thou art the Spring, and we the sweet green garden.Rumi

Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain;For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder,Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.Rumi

Kindle in thy heart the flame of Love,And burn up utterly thoughts and fine expressions.Rumi

The fertile garden of Love, as it is boundless,Contains other fruits besides joy and sorrow.The true lover is exalted above these two states,He is fresh and green independently of autumn or spring.Rumi

I am a lover well versed in lovers’ madness,I am weary of learning and sense.Rumi

One who is really loved is the single object of her lover, the Alpha and Omega of his desires.Rumi

A damsel said to her lover, “O fond youth,You have visited many cities in your travels;Which of those cities seems most delightful to you?”He made answer, “The city wherein my love dwells.”Rumi

The sect of lovers is distinct from all others,Lovers have a religion and a faith of their own.Rumi

With thee, my love, hell itself were heaven.With thee a prison would be a rose-garden.With thee hell would be a mansion of delight,Without thee lilies and roses would be as flames of fire!Rumi

Love is fearless in the midst of the sea of fear.Rumi

When you have accepted the Light, O beloved,When you behold what is veiled without a veil,Like a star you will walk upon the heavens.Rumi

When the lover feels no longer love’s quickening,He becomes like a bird who has lost its wings.Rumi

Love exalts our earthly bodies to heaven,And makes the very hills to dance with joy!Rumi

Hail to thee, O Love, sweet madness!Thou who healest all our infirmities!Rumi

Did my Beloved only touch me with his lips,I too, like a flute, would burst out into melody.Rumi