Rumi Quotes - Page 66

• How can you ever hope to know the Beloved
  Without becoming in every cell the Lover?

  Rumi

  Cells, Becoming, Lovers

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• You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.

  Rumi

  Dream, Water, Veins

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• For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Desire, Mountain

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• Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

  Rumi

  Hurt, Grief, Finding Love

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• The soul lives there in the silent breath.

  Rumi

  Soul, Soul Life, Silent

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• Hear from the heart wordless mysteries.

  Rumi

  Heart, Mystery

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• In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?

  Rumi

  Names, Silence, Forever

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• Your kindness cannot be said.
  You open doors in the sky.
  You ease the heart and make
  God's qualities visible.

  Rumi

  Kindness, Heart, Doors

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• The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer!

  Rumi

  Flutes, Breaths

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.217, Penguin UK

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• Your eyes are even smaller,
  yet they behold the world.

  Rumi

  Eye, World, Sufi Wisdom

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• Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.

  Rumi

  Wine, Kissing, Night

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• Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.

  Rumi

  Life, Ocean, Foundation

  "Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.

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• Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy.

  Rumi

  Thinking, Sky, World

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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• Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

  Rumi

  Self, Idols, Easy

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• Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wine

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• Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.

  Rumi

  Spring, Thinking, Want

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.107, Lulu.com

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• What can I do my friends, if I do not know? I am neither Christian nor Jew, nor Muslim nor Hindu. What can I do? What can I do? Not of the East, nor of the West, Nor of the land, nor of the sea, Not of nature's essence, nor of circling heavens. What could I be?

  Rumi

  Christian, Sea, Land

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• What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.

  Rumi

  Drinking, Mean, Ego

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• Love asks us to enjoy our life For nothing good can come of death. Who is alive? I ask. Those who are born of love. Seek us in love itself, Seek love in us ourselves. Sometimes I venerate love, Sometimes it venerates me.

  Rumi

  Alive, Sometimes, Born

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• Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.

  Rumi

  Dance, Dancing, Just Dance

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• Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.

  Rumi

  Love, Drunk, Giving

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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• Everything has to do with loving and not loving.

  Rumi

  Love

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• No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Crazy, Home

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• Let your throat-song
  be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length
  suppliant, at the door.

  Rumi

  Song, Strong, Fall

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.304, Penguin UK

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

  Rumi

  Garden, Rose, Vision

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Seed Market”

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