Rumi
176 quotes
Biography
"The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh."
"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom."
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about."
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
"We are born of love; Love is our mother."
"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion."
"What you seek is seeking you."
"The minute I heard my first love story,I started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was.Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.They're in each other all along."
"Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"
"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."
"Forget safety.Live where you fear to live.Destroy your reputation.Be notorious."
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."
"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."
"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."
"Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything."
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
"I want to see you.Know your voice.Recognize you when youfirst come 'round the corner.Sense your scent when I come into a room you've just left.Know the lift of your heel,the glide of your foot.Become familiar with the way you purse your lipsthen let them part, just the slightest bit,when I lean in to your spaceand kiss you.I want to know the joy of how you whisper "more"
"My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there."
"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."
"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."
"silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation."
"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."
"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure."