These Rumi quotes are from the Persian poet and Sufi mystic Jalal Uddin Rumi (1207 - 1273).
I had never heard of Rumi before starting this website,
but now these Rumi quotes are among my favourites, his words of wisdom and love are just as relevant today as they were in the 13th
Century.
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A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.
All creation is Him, but for eyes that can see.
All religions, all this singing one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The Sun's light looks a little different on thsi wall than it does on that wall. And a lot different on this other one, but it's still one light. We have borrowed these clothes, these time and place personalities from a light, and when we praise, we're pouring them back in.
Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.
As you start to walk out on the way.. The Way appears.
Be
a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder..
Help someone’s
soul to heal.
Be grateful for whoever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
Close both eyes and see with the other eye.
Do not feel lonely.. The entire Universe is inside you.
Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Go
my friend.. Bestow your love, even on your enemies.
If you touch
their hearts, what do you think will happen?
God made the illusion look real and the real an illusion.
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes, because for those who love with Heart and Soul, there is no such thing as separation.
I
belong to no religion.
My religion is love.
Every heart is my temple.
I
searched for God and found only myself.
I searched for myself and
found only God.
If everything around you seems dark, look again, you may be the Light.
If Light is in your Heart, you will find your way home.
If the house of the world is dark, love will find a way to create windows.
If you find a trusted friend, tell him the secrets of your Soul, if you see a rose, sing from your heart, like a nightingale.
If you want the moon, do not hide at night. If you want a rose, do not run from the thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself.
In
fact, my Soul and yours are the same.
You appear in me, I in you.
We
hide in each other.
In the garden.. I see only your face - from trees and blossoms. I inhale only your fragrance.
Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen.
Let silence take you to the core of life.
Let the beauty we love, be what we do.
Let yourself be loved, O Beloved, in the One. And from this One move out into the world, carrying within you the great potent energies of life to green your world, to create planets, suns, stars, stones, waves, oceans, to create new forms of life and expression - whether a friendship, a feeling or a new form of vocation.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of Souls, there are billions of ways to grow.
Listen
with ears of tolerance.
See through eyes of compassion.
Speak with
the language of love.
Look for the answer inside your question.
Love is a river.. Drink from it.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Love is the Soul’s light.
Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
Put
your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon
of your heart.
Let go of thinking.
Raise
your words, not voice.
It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Respond to every call that excites your Spirit.
Set
your life on fire..
Seek those who fan your flames.
The
breeze of 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, where the two
worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t
go back to sleep.
The desire to know your own Soul will end all other desires.
The lamps are different, but the light is the same.
The light which shines from the eye is really the light from the heart.
The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.
The Soul has been given its own ears to hear things that the mind does not understand.
The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
There is a voice that doesn’t use words.. Listen.
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor…
Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
Trade you cleverness for bewilderment.
We rarely hear the inward music, but we’re dancing to it nevertheless.
What
comes will go.
What is found, will be lost again.
But, what you are
is beyond coming and going and beyond description.
You are it.
What strikes the oyster does not damage the pearl.
Whatever happens.. Just keep smiling and lose yourself in love.
When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.
When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.
When you seek love with all your heart.. You will find its echoes in the Universe.
Wherever you stand.. Be the Soul of that place.
Whoever has parted from his source longs to return to that state of union.
Why
are you knocking at every door?
Go, knock at the door of your own Heart.
With life as short as a half taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.
Yesterday
I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise, so I
am changing myself.
You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it.
You
are not a drop in the ocean..
You are the entire ocean in a drop.
You
are searching the world for treasure..
But the real treasure is
yourself.
You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck.
You
were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust.
You
were born with ideals and dreams.
You were born with greatness.
You
were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.
You have wings.. Learn to use them and fly.
Your
heart is the size of an ocean.
Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
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.
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