Jalal al-Din Rumi quotes and aphorisms
Rumi quotes and aphorisms Jalal al-Din Rumi quotes and aphorisms, great words of wisdom and poetry of the most famous and influential Persian mystics and spiritual poets in history. A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union. Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music. Jalal al-Din Rumi A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you. Jalal al-Din Rumi A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. Jalal al-Din Rumi A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain. Jalal al-Din Rumi A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence. Jalal al-Din Rumi Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others. Jalal al-Din Rumi All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire. Jalal al-Din Rumi All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you. Jalal al-Din Rumi All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep. Jalal al-Din Rumi All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace. Jalal al-Din Rumi Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’d ever imagined. Jalal al-Din Rumi Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses. Jalal al-Din Rumi And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. Jalal al-Din Rumi Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something, will find it. Jalal al-Din Rumi Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything. Jalal al-Din Rumi As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. Jalal al-Din Rumi Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love. Jalal al-Din Rumi Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. Jalal al-Din Rumi Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful. Jalal al-Din Rumi Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you. Jalal al-Din Rumi Be an empty page, untouched by words. Jalal al-Din Rumi Be drunk with love, for love is all that exists. Jalal al-Din Rumi Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought. Jalal al-Din Rumi Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. Jalal al-Din Rumi Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. Jalal al-Din Rumi Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love. Jalal al-Din Rumi Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us. Jalal al-Din Rumi Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear. Jalal al-Din Rumi Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself. Jalal al-Din Rumi Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming. Jalal al-Din Rumi Be with those who help your being. Jalal al-Din Rumi Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. Jalal al-Din Rumi Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Jalal al-Din Rumi Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away. Jalal al-Din Rumi By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself. Jalal al-Din Rumi Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I’ll meet you there. Jalal al-Din Rumi But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you. Jalal al-Din Rumi Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything. Jalal al-Din Rumi Clean out your ears, don’t listen for what you already know. Jalal al-Din Rumi Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there. Jalal al-Din Rumi Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love. Jalal al-Din Rumi Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the light. Jalal al-Din Rumi Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls. Jalal al-Din Rumi Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions. Jalal al-Din Rumi Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet. Jalal al-Din Rumi Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free. Jalal al-Din Rumi Dance until you shatter yourself. Jalal al-Din Rumi Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds. Jalal al-Din Rumi Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul. Jalal al-Din Rumi Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear? Jalal al-Din Rumi Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets. But they are not gone. Jalal al-Din Rumi Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love. Jalal al-Din Rumi Do good to the people for the sake of God or for the peace of your own soul that you may always see what is pure and save your heart from the darkness of hate. Jalal al-Din Rumi Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Jalal al-Din Rumi Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Jalal al-Din Rumi Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire. Jalal al-Din Rumi Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now. Jalal al-Din Rumi Don’t be sad! Because God sends hope in the most desperate moments. Don’t forget, the heaviest rain comes out of the darkest clouds. Jalal al-Din Rumi Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. Jalal al-Din Rumi Don’t dismiss the heart, even if it’s filled with sorrow. God’s treasures are buried in broken hearts. Jalal al-Din Rumi Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure. Jalal al-Din Rumi Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Jalal al-Din Rumi Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come. Jalal al-Din Rumi Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you. Jalal al-Din Rumi Don’t you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds. Jalal al-Din Rumi Each moment contains a hundred messages from God. Jalal al-Din Rumi Either give me more wine or leave me alone. Jalal al-Din Rumi Every moment is made glorious by the light of love. Jalal al-Din Rumi Every need brings what’s needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, and the marvelous answer appears. Jalal al-Din Rumi Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Jalal al-Din Rumi Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that’s why they have so much heartache and sorrow. Jalal al-Din Rumi Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things. Jalal al-Din Rumi Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. Jalal al-Din Rumi Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. Jalal al-Din Rumi Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants. Jalal al-Din Rumi Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. Jalal al-Din Rumi Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Jalal al-Din Rumi Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you. Jalal al-Din Rumi Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. Jalal al-Din Rumi Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. Halfheartedness does not reach into majesty! Jalal al-Din Rumi God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one Jalal al-Din Rumi Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. Jalal al-Din Rumi Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again. Jalal al-Din Rumi Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk. Jalal al-Din Rumi Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death. Jalal al-Din Rumi 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. Jalal al-Din Rumi Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty. Jalal al-Din Rumi How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean. Jalal al-Din Rumi However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers. Jalal al-Din Rumi I am a child whose teacher is love surely my master won’t let me grow to be a fool. Jalal al-Din Rumi I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. Jalal al-Din Rumi I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer. Jalal al-Din Rumi I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me. Jalal al-Din Rumi I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection. I choose to love you in loneliness, for in loneliness no one owns you but me. I choose to adore you from a distance. For distance will shield me from pain. I choose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips. I choose to hold you in my dreams, for me in dreams, you have no ends. Jalal al-Din Rumi I have found the heart and will never leave this house of light. Jalal al-Din Rumi I have neither a soul nor a body, for I come from the very Soul of all souls. Jalal al-Din Rumi I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The soul calls from within me: ‘You, ignorant of the way of Love, set me free.’ Jalal al-Din Rumi I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life. Jalal al-Din Rumi I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind. Jalal al-Din Rumi I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away. Jalal al-Din Rumi I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. Jalal al-Din Rumi I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast. Jalal al-Din Rumi I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within. Jalal al-Din Rumi I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul. Jalal al-Din Rumi I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.' Jalal al-Din Rumi I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls. Jalal al-Din Rumi I know you’re tired but come, this is the way. Jalal al-Din Rumi I should be suspicious of what I want. Jalal al-Din Rumi I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. Jalal al-Din Rumi If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. Jalal al-Din Rumi If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself. Jalal al-Din Rumi If light is in your heart, you will find your way home. Jalal al-Din Rumi If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face. Jalal al-Din Rumi In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. Jalal al-Din Rumi In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear. Jalal al-Din Rumi It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home. Jalal al-Din Rumi It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. Jalal al-Din Rumi If destiny comes to help you, love will come to meet you. A life without love isn’t a life. Jalal al-Din Rumi If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it. Jalal al-Din Rumi If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast. Jalal al-Din Rumi If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away. Jalal al-Din Rumi If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? Jalal al-Din Rumi If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless. Jalal al-Din Rumi If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception. Jalal al-Din Rumi If you love someone, you are always joined with them – in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife. Jalal al-Din Rumi If you want money more than anything, you’ll be bought and sold your whole life. Jalal al-Din Rumi If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road. 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Jalal al-Din Rumi quotes If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart. Jalal al-Din Rumi If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything. Jalal al-Din Rumi Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. Jalal al-Din Rumi In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal. Jalal al-Din Rumi In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance. Jalal al-Din Rumi In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same. Jalal al-Din Rumi In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. Jalal al-Din Rumi Inside any deep asking is the answering. Jalal al-Din Rumi It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost. Jalal al-Din Rumi Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own soul. Enter the ruins of your heart and learn the meaning of humility. Jalal al-Din Rumi Joy lives concealed in grief. Jalal al-Din Rumi Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness. Jalal al-Din Rumi Knock, and He’ll open the door. Vanish, and He’ll make you shine like the sun. Fall, and He’ll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, and He’ll turn you into everything. Jalal al-Din Rumi Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live. Jalal al-Din Rumi Let silence be the art you practice. Jalal al-Din Rumi Let silence take you to the core of life. Jalal al-Din Rumi Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. Jalal al-Din Rumi Let your teacher be love itself. Jalal al-Din Rumi Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. Jalal al-Din Rumi Let yourself become living poetry. Jalal al-Din Rumi Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen. Jalal al-Din Rumi Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being. Jalal al-Din Rumi Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love. Jalal al-Din Rumi Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love. Jalal al-Din Rumi Let’s rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another. Jalal al-Din Rumi Life is a balance of holding on and letting go. Jalal al-Din Rumi Listen to the sound of waves within you. Jalal al-Din Rumi Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music. Jalal al-Din Rumi Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues. Jalal al-Din Rumi Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake. Jalal al-Din Rumi Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy. Jalal al-Din Rumi Love is the water of life, jump into this water. Jalal al-Din Rumi Love is the water of life. Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar-eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the water of life. Jalal al-Din Rumi Love risks everything and asks for nothing. Jalal al-Din Rumi Love is the bridge between you and everything. Jalal al-Din Rumi Love will find its way through all languages on its own. Jalal al-Din Rumi Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out. Jalal al-Din Rumi Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. Jalal al-Din Rumi Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep, or games, but only by seeing their beloved. Jalal al-Din Rumi Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. Jalal al-Din Rumi Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty. Jalal al-Din Rumi May these vows and this marriage be blessed. Jalal al-Din Rumi May these vows and this marriage be blessed. Jalal al-Din Rumi May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. Jalal al-Din Rumi Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. Jalal al-Din Rumi My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. Jalal al-Din Rumi Move, but don’t move the way fear makes you move. Jalal al-Din Rumi My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don’t harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don’t teach what you do not know. Jalal al-Din Rumi My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way. Jalal al-Din Rumi My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.
