Rumi Quotes About Language

• Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.

  Rumi

  Yoga, World, Language

• Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

  Rumi

  Love, Inspiring, Eye

• Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

  Rumi

  Feelings, Language, Speaking The Same Language

• All language is a longing for home.

  Rumi

  Home, Language, Longing

• Silence
  is an ocean. Speech is a river.
  When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk
  into the language-river. Listen to the ocean,
  and bring your talky business to an end.
  Traditional words are just babbling
  in that presence, and babbling is a substitute
  for sight.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Sight, Rivers

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 18: "The Three Fish", p. 196, 1995.

• Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

  Rumi

  Hate, Way, Language

• Love is language that cannot be said, or heard.

  Rumi

  Love Is, Language, Said

• The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.

  Rumi

  Heart, Way, Language

• Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Past

  "Teachers of Wisdom". Book by Igor Kononenko, p. 134, 2010.

• At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.

  Rumi

  Love, Marriage, Moon

• You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.

  Rumi

  Grief, Taken, Sadness

• Close the language-door,
  and open the love-window

  Rumi

  Doors, Language, Window

• Speak with the language of love.

  Rumi

  Language Of Love, Language, Speak

• This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.

  Rumi

  Silence, Overcoming, Use

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Penguin UK

• Empathy is even better than talking in one language

  Rumi

  Talking, Empathy, Language

• Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love

  Rumi

  Greek, Language, Speak

• You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Dust, Hands

• Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land of absence Be silent Don’t say a thing Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there

  Rumi

  Land, Want, Language

• There is another language beyond language,
  another place beyond heaven and hell.
  Precious gems come from another mine,
  the heart draws light from another source.

  Rumi

  Heart, Light, Heaven

  Rumi (2012). “Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit”, p.183, Hampton Roads Publishing

• In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.

  Rumi

  Country, Love Is, Language

• There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together.

  Rumi

  Water, Together, World

  Speech of Celal Çelebi at the Vatican, www.mevlana.ch. September 2014.

• Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.

  Rumi

  Heart, Sea, Language

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