The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world. — Rumi Copy Share Image
A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles. — Rumi Copy Share Image
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. — Rumi Copy Share Image
When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men. — Rumi Copy Share Image
When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening. — Rumi Copy Share Image
If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast. — Rumi Copy Share Image
New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business… — Rumi Copy Share Image
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A man or a woman is said to be absorbed when the water has total control of him, and he no control… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that… — Rumi Copy Share Image
We are the mirror, as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. We are… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Passion is present when a man can distinguish between the wine and the container. Two men see a loaf of bread. One… — 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
