Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains.... — Rumi Copy Share Image
From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try… — Rumi Copy Share Image
When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. — 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
This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The spirit and the body carry different loads and require different attentions. Too often we put the saddlebags on Jesus and let… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and… — Rumi Copy Share Image
This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit.… — 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 Image
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 Image
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“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 Image
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share Image