Rumi Spiritual Quotations

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.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

The middle path is the way to wisdom

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.” “In prayer all are equal.

There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.

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

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

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

When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.

You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.

I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.

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

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.

The lion is most handsome when looking for food.

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!

Stars burn clear all night till dawn. Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark with water your deepest thirst is for.

I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.

The breezes at dawn have 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 doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

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

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.

Give your weakness to one who helps.

Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.

We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight, a lonely hiddenness. Other pleasure gathers a crowd, starts a fight, lots of noise there. But soul beauty stays quiet..his amazing whereabouts unknown inside my heart.

And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.

But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

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

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

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

Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.

On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.

The soul is here for its own joy.

We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.

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.

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

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?

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?

The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before.

If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

Love is a river. Drink from it.

I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying.

Work on your strong qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over.

They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual? They wonder about Solomon and all his wives. In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul and you are that. But we have ways within each other that will never be said by anyone.

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.

Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.

Love calls - everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming?

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

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.

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

Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.

Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.

I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home.

What you seek is seeking you.

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