“The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.” — Rumi Copy Share Image
I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning. — 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
I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and your water too I have come all this… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oÆ’ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.… — 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
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
There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . .… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set… — 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
We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made… — 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 spring water… — 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
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
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
If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road. — 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
