Rumi Quotes

A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you.Do not consider what strangers say.Be secluded in your secret heart-house,that bowl of silence.

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets.The moon sets.But they are not gone.~Rumi

Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.

Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.

Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!

You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you,but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art.

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.

Imitating others, I failed to find myself. I looked inside and discovered I only knew my name. When I stepped outside I found my real Self. ~Rumi

I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his work took modern Western readers completely by surprise. The impact of its soulful beauty and the depth of its profound humanity were so intense that they reportedly prompted numerous individuals to spontaneously compose poetry.

When I was a child, I saw God,I saw angels;I watched the mysteries of higher and lower worlds. I thought all men saw the same. At last I realized that they did not see.....

In one moment, we are now forever,in one moment...

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

Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.

I see the life with your sight,O" the love; you're my light.

And I was your moon because I shined brighter than any other star in your universe and you were my darkness. Without you I could not see the depth of my light and with you I could set the night a glow. So we needed one another—the dark and the light. Your fear. My courage. Connected, but separated. Different, but the same. A synergy that made no sense, but every bit of sense. We were neither a beginning, nor an end. We were somewhere in between our madness at sunset and the reality we awakened to with each sunrise. We were the ghosts of timing and fate. We were neither fantasy, nor reality--- we were a purpose somewhere in between.

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty.

If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

You know how it goes:at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God.Then you abandoned life and loverand started celebratingyour love for God.

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,no light and no land anywhere,cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface, yet I'm already underand living within the ocean.