Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes

Let silence take you to the core of life.

~ Jalaluddin 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 chose to kiss you in the wind, for the wind is gentler than my lips.I choose to hold you in my dreams, for in my dreams you have no end.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.From within, I couldn't decide what to do.Unable to see, I heard my name being called.Then I walked outside.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The minute I heard my first love story,I started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was.Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.They're in each other all along.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawaterbegs the pearl to break its shell.and the lily, how passionatelyit needs some wild darling! Atnight, I open the window and askthe moon to come and press itsface against mine. Breathe intome. Close the language door andopen the lovers window. The moonwon’t use the door, only the window.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential.Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of the One.Blessed is the poem that comes through me but not of me because the sound of my own music will drown the song of Love.

~ Jalaluddin 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. There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Let go of your mind and then be mindful.Close your ears and listen!

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Every story is us

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

You have seen what Eblis the accursed has seen, when he said I am of fire, while Adam is of clay.Cover up the Eblis-like eye for just a moment; how long will you see just the form? How long, indeed, how long?Alas for that eye that's blind and bruised! Within it the sun seemed like an atomOf an Adam who had no like. He saw nothing but a lump of

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided. When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

What does not come into man's imagination is called a gift because whatever passes through his imagination is in proportion to his aspiration and his worth. However, God's gift is in proportion to God's worth....no matter how much eyes have seen, ears heard, or minds conceived the gift you expect of Me, My gift is above and beyond all that.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The flower that does not smileat the branches withers.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

For beloved cross every pass Worldly affairs slow their pace A flowing brook amidst the grass Flowing tears his face shall trace His ego is shattered glass Self-estranged, himself deface Sense the Divine in spirit and mass If he is truly seeking grace

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

If I could repeat it,people passing by would be enlightened and go free.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

I made an oath to myself:as long as I liveas long as my soul remains in this bodyI won't deviate from the right waybut later I looked to my left and then to my rightand I saw our beloved everywherehow could I make a wrong turn?

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Love is a madman,working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes,running through the mountains, drinking poison,and now quietly choosing annihilation.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:eat less of it, for it is full of fire.Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

You are the source of the sun.And I am the willow's shadow. Oh, you have struck me on the head,Wretch that I am, on fire am I.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Say I Am YouI am dust particles in sunlight.I am the round sun.To the bits of dust I say, Stay.To the sun, Keep moving.I am morning mist, and the breathing of evening.I am wind in the top of a grove, and surf on the cliff.Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,I am also the coral reef they founder on.I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches.Silence, thought, and voice.The musical air coming through a flute,a spark of a stone, a flickering in metal.Both candle and the moth crazy around it.Rose, and the nightingale lost in the fragrance.I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy,the evolutionary intelligence, the lift,and the falling away. What is, and what isn't.You who know Jelaluddin, You the one in all,say who I am. Say I am You.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

If the beloved is everywhere,the lover is a veil,but when living itself becomesthe Friend, lovers disappear.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

You were sent to unite peopleYou were not been sent to divide people.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

You were sent to unite peopleYou were not sent to divide people.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

All the tears which we creatures shed for Him are not tears as many think but pearls....

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Without demolishing religious schools (madrassahs) and minarets and without abandoning the beliefs and ideas of the medieval age, restriction in thoughts and pains in conscience will not end. Without understanding that unbelief is a kind of religion, and that conservative religious belief a kind of disbelief, and without showing tolerance to opposite ideas, one cannot succeed. Those who look for the truth will accomplish the mission.Mevlana Jalal ad-Din RUMI

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Eblis said, No man who thinks ill, will hear the truth despite a hundred signs.When one who fantasises is presented with reason his fantasies increase.When one talks to such a person, their words become the very cause of that person's fantasy. The crusader's sword is a tool for a thief.So the response to him is silence and peace; to talk with an idiot is insa

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

You could string a hundred endless days together,My soul would find no comfort from this pain.You laugh at my tale? You may be educatedBut you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want that love that will raise the dead. I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. I want that love that is the silence of eternity.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

you are a volume in the divine booka mirror to the power that created the universewhatever you want, ask it of yourselfwhatever you're looking for can only be foundinside of you

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi