--- title: "11 Green Quotes By Rumi" description: "11 Green quotes by Rumi. Plus more from Rumi and more Green sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86a/rumi-56_earth_tender-words-we-spoke-to-one-another-are_2008646.jpg" --- > [Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/tender-words-we-spoke-to-one-another-are-sealed-in-the-secret-vaults/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86a/rumi-56_earth_tender-words-we-spoke-to-one-another-are_2008646.jpg) > [Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/just-as-the-heart-becomes-carefree-in-a-place-of-green-growing-plants/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b9/rumi-56_born_just-as-the-heart-becomes-carefree-in-a_705204.jpg) > [Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/don-t-put-blankets-over-the-drum-open-completely-let-your-spirit-ear/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a5/rumi-56_blanket_don-t-put-blankets-over-the-drum-open-co_1882546.jpg) > [We bury our seeds and wait, Winter blocks the road, Flowers are taken prisoner underground, But then green justice tenders a spear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/we-bury-our-seeds-and-wait-winter-blocks-the-road-flowers-are-taken/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9e/rumi-56_block_we-bury-our-seeds-and-wait-winter-blocks_655690.jpg) > [The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/the-garden-of-love-is-green-without-limit-and-yields-many-fruits/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a04/rumi-56_autumn_the-garden-of-love-is-green-without-limi_623420.jpg) > [I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-do-not-know-who-lives-here-in-my-chest-or-why-the-smile-comes-i-am/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a8/rumi-56_chests_i-do-not-know-who-lives-here-in-my-chest_1964015.jpg) > [We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efe/rumi-56_animal_we-began-as-mineral-we-emerged-into-plan_9092.jpg) > [Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/weep-like-the-waterwheel-that-green-herbs-may-spring-up-from-the/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ed/rumi-56_compassion_weep-like-the-waterwheel-that-green-herb_3093300.jpg) > [Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/physical-existence-is-so-cramped-we-grow-old-and-bent-over-like/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/867/rumi-56_bent_physical-existence-is-so-cramped-we-grow_303131.jpg) > [Let yourself be loved, O Beloved, in the One. And from this One move out into the world, carrying within you the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/let-yourself-be-loved-o-beloved-in-the-one-and-from-this-one-move-out/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29b/rumi-56_attraction_let-yourself-be-loved-o-beloved-in-the-o_2777631.jpg) > [Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/be-a-helpful-friend-and-you-will-become-a-green-tree-with-always-new/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b4/rumi-56_deeper_be-a-helpful-friend-and-you-will-become_2139240.jpg) ## Other authors on Green ## 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/green/rumi/#itemlist", "name": "11 Green Quotes By Rumi", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. 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