Rumi Quotes - Page 18

• Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,
  where something might be planted,
  a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.

  Rumi

  Growing, Might, Spots

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.43, Penguin UK

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• Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.

  Rumi

  Spring, Heart, Water

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• Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be doing as much for this universe as anyone.

  Rumi

  Dog, Rain, Singing

  Daniel Ladinsky, Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2012). “The Purity of Desire: 100 Poems of Rumi”, p.67, Penguin

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• My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.

  Rumi

  Heart, Soul, Crow

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• No more words. Hear only the voice within.

  Rumi

  Voice, Listening

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• Through your love
  existence and nonexistence merge.
  All opposites unite.
  All that is profane
  becomes sacred again.

  Rumi

  Opposites, Sacred, Existence

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• Love means to reach for the sky
  and with every breath to tear a
  hundred veils. Love means to step
  away from the ego, to open the eyes
  of inner vision and not to take this
  world so seriously

  Rumi

  Mean, Eye, Sky

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• Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Moving, Journey

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• Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.

  Rumi

  Tangled, Paradise, Littles

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• How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Who I Am, Wave

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• You are the root of heaven, the morning star, the bright moon, the house of endless Love

  Rumi

  Morning, Stars, Moon

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• Go my friend
  bestow your love
  even on your enemies
  if you touch their hearts
  what do you think will happen.

  Rumi

  Love, Attitude, Heart

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• 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

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• 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

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• God made the Illusion look Real and the Real an Illusion !

  Rumi

  Real, Looks, Illusion

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• From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I’m a stone, but through you, I am a gem!

  Rumi

  Gold, Stones, Copper

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• Lovers have heartaches
  That can't be cured by drugs
  Or sleep,
  Or games,
  But only by seeing their beloved.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Games, Heartache

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• Wherever water flows, life flourishes:
  wherever tears fall, Divine mercy is shown.

  Rumi

  Fall, Water, Tears

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• Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.

  Rumi

  Yesterday, Gone, Today

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• Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold.

  Rumi

  Real, Gold, Real Gold

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• I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey… Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul… Love says, “You are right, but don’t claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.

  Rumi

  Wind, Rushing, Rose

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• All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that,and I intend to end up there. Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. I didn’t come here of my own accord, and I can’t leave that way. Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home.

  Rumi

  Home, Eye, Night

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Who Says Words With My Mouth?”

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• You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

  Rumi

  Journey, Light, Needs

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• If destiny comes to help you,
  Love will come to meet you.
  A life without love isn't a life

  Rumi

  Love, Destiny, Helping

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• I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.

  Rumi

  Soul, Speak, Silent

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