Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring. — Rumi Copy Share Image
We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's… — Rumi Copy Share Image
When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place. — Rumi Copy Share Image
In truth everything and everyone Is a shadow of the Beloved, And our seeking is His seeking And our words are His… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Every need brings what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, And the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Do you hear what the music is saying? 'Come follow me and you will find the way. Your mistakes can also lead… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When… — Rumi Copy Share Image
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi Copy Share
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten… — Rumi Copy Share
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. — Rumi Copy Share
“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you… — Rumi Copy Share
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden. — Rumi Copy Share
If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But… — Rumi Copy Share
“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.” — Rumi Copy Share
