Submit to love without thinking, as the sun rose this morning recklessly extinguishing our star-candle minds. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Go my friend bestow your love even on your enemies if you touch their hearts what do you think will happen. — Rumi Copy Share Image
And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous. — 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
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. — Rumi Copy Share Image
If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken… — Rumi Copy Share Image
My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't… — Rumi Copy Share Image
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed… — 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 is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . .… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the… — 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
Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising… — Rumi Copy Share Image
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed… — 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
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
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You think of yourself as a citizen of the universe. You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out… — 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
