--- title: "6 Burning Quotes By Rumi" description: "6 Burning quotes by Rumi. Plus more from Rumi and more Burning sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0e/rumi-56_burning_i-am-burning-if-anyone-lacks-tinder-let_323887.jpg" --- > [I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-am-burning-if-anyone-lacks-tinder-let-him-set-his-rubbish-ablaze/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0e/rumi-56_burning_i-am-burning-if-anyone-lacks-tinder-let_323887.jpg) > [I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-wish-i-could-give-you-a-taste-of-the-burning-fire-of-love-there-is/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e20/rumi-56_blazing_i-wish-i-could-give-you-a-taste-of-the-b_466338.jpg) > [I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-said-what-about-my-eyes-god-said-keep-them-on-the-road-i-said-what/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7d/rumi-56_burning_i-said-what-about-my-eyes-god-said-keep_855005.jpg) > [My heart is burning with love. All I can see is this flame. My heart is burning with passion, like waves on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/my-heart-is-burning-with-love-all-i-can-see-is-this-flame-my-heart-is/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c6/rumi-56_behinds_my-heart-is-burning-with-love-all-i-can_994169.jpg) > [Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/thinking-gives-off-smoke-to-prove-the-existence-of-fire-a-mystic-sits/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/788/rumi-56_burning_thinking-gives-off-smoke-to-prove-the-ex_1071269.jpg) > [Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/enough-of-these-phrases-conceit-and-metaphors-i-want-burning-burning/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9da/rumi-56_burning_enough-of-these-phrases-conceit-and-meta_2683327.jpg) ## Other authors on Burning ## More by Rumi > [The love religion is all that is written here.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/the-love-religion-is-all-that-is-written-here/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/and-so-it-is-that-both-the-devil-and-the-angelic-spirit-present-us/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/we-began-as-mineral-we-emerged-into-plant-life-and-into-the-animal/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-a-morning-inside-you-waiting-to-burst-open-into-light/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/sometimes-you-hear-a-voice-through-the-door-calling-you-this-turning/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/you-ve-so-distracted-me-your-absence-fans-my-love-don-t-ask-how-then/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-something-to-be-said-for-anyone-who-sits-alone-with-dignity/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/tis-easy-to-break-an-idol-very-easy-to-regard-the-self-as-easy-to/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/today-let-us-swim-wildly-joyously-in-gratitude/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [I have no name for what circles so perfectly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-have-no-name-for-what-circles-so-perfectly/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/what-draws-friends-together-does-not-conform-to-the-laws-of-nature/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [We are born of love. Love is our mother.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/we-are-born-of-love-love-is-our-mother/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/water-stories-the-body-all-the-things-we-do-are-mediums-that-hid-and/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/if-your-heart-isn-t-yet-illumined-be-awake-always-be-a-seeker-of-the/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-came-back-to-you-because-i-could-not-find-the-kind-and-decent/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/burning/rumi/#itemlist", "name": "6 Burning Quotes By Rumi", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am burning. 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