Top 25 Quotes by Rumi of 1775 - Page 32

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

Rumi

Love, Spiritual, Sleep

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.147, Penguin UK

Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door. She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side. Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.

Rumi

Wine, Eye, Hair

The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.

Rumi

Essence, Rose, Thorns

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

Rumi

Country, Love Is, Language

What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality.

Rumi

Dark, Sitting, Strange

In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says" your beauty lights up everything around you.

Rumi

Beautiful, Light, Hair

Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.

Rumi

Love Is, Infinite, Eternity

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Rumi

Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.72, Penguin UK

Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will come from grace to gather us up. We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty. If we say we can, we’re lying. If we say No, we don’t see it, That No will behead us And shut tight our window onto spirit. So let us rather not be sure of anything, Beside ourselves, and only that, so Miraculous beings come running to help. Crazed, lying in a zero circle, mute, We shall be saying finally, With tremendous eloquence, Lead us. When we have totally surrendered to that beauty, We shall be a mighty kindness.

Rumi

Running, Zero, Kindness

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Zero Circle”

If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.

Rumi

Heart, World, Harps

God put thorns around the Love's door to stop anyone who's not a Lover from entering.

Rumi

Doors, Entering, Thorns

O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.

Rumi

Communication, Heart, Eye

Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

Rumi

Fire, People, Spiritual Growth

There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?

Rumi

Sweet, Healing, Water

"The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 19: "Jesus Poems", p. 204, 1995.

Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.

Rumi

Men, Thinking, Evil

One day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on my cheek the poem that hasn't been thought of.

Rumi

Writing, Angel, Eyelashes

God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.

Rumi

Spiritual, May, Observant

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

Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

Rumi

Darkness, Quests, Boundaries

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.50, Penguin UK

There is a sun within every person.

Rumi

Sun, Persons

If my head holds one thought wise and clear, it's You. Poor as I am, what I hold dear is You. No matter how I see myself, I'm nothing ... Anything I am entirely is You!

Rumi

Wise, Matter, Poor

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.

Rumi

God, Spiritual, Water

"Essential Sufism". Book by James Fadiman and Robert Frager, 1997.

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

Rumi

Truth, Stories, Disease

"Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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