If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his… — Rumi Copy Share Image
In the garden I see only your face From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain. — Rumi Copy Share Image
You are more valuable than both heaven and earth. What else can I say? You don’t know your own worth. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There comes a holy and transparent time when every touch of beauty opens the heart to tears. This is the time the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Let me praise you tonight. Because tomorrow you cannot be described by words, While describing you. Tomorrow, earth and sky will disappear… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If you put your heart against the earth with me In serving every creature, our Beloved will enter you From our sacred… — Rumi Copy Share Image
What can I do my friends, if I do not know? I am neither Christian nor Jew, nor Muslim nor Hindu. What… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Work on your stony qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting… — Rumi Copy Share Image
When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one;… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The month of fasting has come, the emperor's banner has arrived, withhold your hand from food, the spirit's table has arrived. The… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“It’s rigged — everything, in your favor. So there is nothing to worry about. Is there some position you want, some office,… — 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
In this earth, in this immaculate field, we shall not plant any seeds except for compassion, except for love. — Rumi Copy Share Image
When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Walk to the well. Turn as the earth and the moon turn, circling what they love. Whatever circles comes from the center. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth. — 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
