If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.” She said, “Knowing me does not mean dying. — Rumi Copy Share Image
If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life. — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is nothing outside of yourself, look within. Everything you want is there. You are That. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Because the Beloved wants to know, unseen things become manifest. Hiding is the hidden purpose of creation. — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . .… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or… — Rumi Copy Share Image
People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee. If you want the unseen world you are not living… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love and being a Lover.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love: We are going to sky, who wants to come with… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Those who do soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who… — Rumi Copy Share Image
From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull… — 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
