Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. — Rumi Copy Share Image
We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect. — Rumi Copy Share Image
If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I said, O Love, tell me this: Does the Lord know you are treating me this way? Love said to me, yes… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord. — Rumi Copy Share Image
The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Mount the stallion of love and do not fear the path, love’s stallion knows the way exactly. With one leap, Love’s horse… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I made an oath to myself: as long as I live as long as my soul remains in this body I won't… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you… — 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
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
Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone… — Rumi Copy Share Image
If you can't smell the fragrance don't come into the garden of Love. if you are unwilling to undress don't enter into… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could… — Rumi Copy Share Image
God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A man or a woman is said to be absorbed when the water has total control of him, and he no control… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who fares without… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Every midwife knows that not until a mother’s womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Eventhough you are not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord. Whoever you see engaged in search,… — Rumi Copy Share Image
We Are All the Same Listen to the reeds as they sway apart; Hear them speak of lost friends. At birth, you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Since you are not a prophet, follow the way taught by prophets. Since you are not a king, be a loyal subject… — 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
