Rumi Quotes About Gardens

• Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

  Rumi

  Journey, Garden, Hiking

• The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

  Rumi

  Change, Garden, Mind

• Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

  Rumi

  Pain, Grief, Heart

• And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

  Rumi

  Winter, Garden, Thinking

• I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Garden, Lovers

• Love, the life-giving garden of this world.

  Rumi

  Garden, Giving, World

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “All Through Eternity”

• The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than the stars with more clarity than the polished mirror of your heart.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Stars, Heart

• This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.

  Rumi

  Spring, Reflection, Garden

• When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.

  Rumi

  Courage, Heart, Garden

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.100, Shambhala Publications

• How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Spring, Flower

• A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden's beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land.

  Rumi

  Love, Sweet, Stars

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.19, Lulu.com

• Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.

  Rumi

  Heart, Garden, Rose

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.158, Shambhala Publications

• I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and your water too I have come all this way, eager for you Without shoes or shawl I want you to laugh To kill all your worries To love you To nourish you.

  Rumi

  Flower, Love You, Garden

• I am a bird of God's garden
  and I do not belong to this dusty world
  For a day or two they have put me here
  in this cage of my own body
  I did not come here of my own
  I will not return of my own
  to my own country.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Country, Islamic

• Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?

  Rumi

  Garden, Water, Rose

  Rumi (2012). “Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit”, p.96, Hampton Roads Publishing

• Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home.
  While you look for trinkets
  The treasure house awaits you in your own being.

  Rumi

  Flower, Home, Garden

• In the garden
  I see only your face
  From trees and blossoms
  I inhale only your fragrance.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Nature, Garden

• 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 the stream of
  Truth. Stay where you are, don't
  come our way

  Rumi

  Garden, Smell, Way

• The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

  Rumi

  Love, Spring, Autumn

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

• In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.

  Rumi

  Passion, Kissing, Garden

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Agony And Ecstasy”

• When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth.

  Rumi

  Song, Garden, Light

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.109, Shambhala Publications

• If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me;
  For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Garden, Feet

  "Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal al-Din Rumi". Book translated by Fatemeh Keshavarz. Divan 1740:1-3, 1998.

• Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

  Rumi

  Garden, Rose, Vision

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Seed Market”

• Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Flower, Islamic

• You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Flower, Islamic

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