Rumi Quotes

Love is a Tree, and the lovers are its shade.

In the lover's heart is a lute which plays the melody of longing.

The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked.

Lose yourself, lose yourself in this love. When you lose yourself in this love, you will find everything.

Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships.

You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.

Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.

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

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

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

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

Don't sigh, don't yawn. Seek passion, passion, passion!

The soul at dawn is like darkened water that slowly begins to say, "Thank you, Thank you."

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.

My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me. Even if I walk with light, I am not the light; and if I am a taut-stringed lute, I am not the lute-player.