Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes

If Light Is In Your HeartYou Will Find Your Way Home.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

If metal can be polishedto a mirrorlike finish,what polishing might the mirrorof the heart require?Between the mirror and the heartis this single difference:the heart conceals secrets,while the mirror does not.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

I love my friendsneither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case…Heart might stop. Mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

My BelovedKnow that my beloved in hidden from everyoneKnow that she is beyond the belief of all beliefsKnow that in my heart she is as clear as the moonKnow that she is the life in my body and in my soul

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

In the silence of loveyou will find the spark of life

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

I waitwith silent passionfor one gestureone glancefrom you

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My wails of sorroware tormenting my soul

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Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

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

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

You are my wine, my joy,My garden, my springtime,My slumber, my repose,Without you, I can't cope.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

If you want money more than anything,you will be bought and sold.If you have a greed for food,you will become a loaf of bread.This is a subtle truth.Whatever you love, you are.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Your depression is connected to your insolenceand refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or womansteals from others every day--is a shoplifter!The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself.Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline.The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes.The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.”“In prayer all are equal.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Notice how each particle moves.Notice how everyone has just arrived here from a journey.Notice how each wants a different food.Notice how the stars vanish as the sun comes up, and how all streams stream toward the ocean.Look at the chefs preparing special plates for everyone, according to what they need.Look at this cup that can hold the ocean.Look at those who see the face.Look through Shams’ eyes into the Water that is entirely jewels.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian nor Muslim,I am not from east or west, not from land or sea,not from the shafts of nature nor from the spheres of the firmament,not of the earth, not of water, not of air, not of fire.I am not from the highest heaven, not from this world,not from existence, not from being.I am not from India, not from China, not from Bulgar, not from Saqsin,not from the realm of the two Iraqs, not from the land of Khurasan.I am not from the world, not from beyond,not from heaven and not from hell.I am not from Adam, not from Eve, not from paradise and not from Ridwan.My place is placeless, my trace is traceless,no body, no soul, I am from the soul of souls.I have chased out duality, lived the two worlds as one.One I seek, one I know, one I see, one I call.He is the first, he is the last, he is the outer, he is the

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Make it your habit to behold the Light without the glass, so that when the glass is shattered you may not be left blind.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The moon splits open.We move through, waterbirds risingto look for another lake.Or say we are living in a love-ocean,where trust works to caulk our body-boat,to make it last a little while,until the inevitable shipwreck,the total marriage, the death-union.Dissolve in friendship,like two drunkards fighting.Do not look for justice herein the jungle where your animal soulgives you bad advice.Drink enough wine so that you stop talking.You are a lover, and love is a tavernwhere no one makes much sense.Even if the things you say are poemsas dense as sacks of Solomon's gold,they become pointless.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

~ Jalaluddin 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

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished??

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Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,no light and no land anywhere,cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface, yet I'm already underand living within the ocean.

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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

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Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.

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DesireI desire youmore than foodand drinkMy bodymy sensesmy mindhunger for your tasteI can sense your presencein my heartalthough you belongto all the worldI waitwith silent passionfor one gestureone glancefrom you

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When your heart becomes the grave of your secret, that desire of your will be gained more quickly.

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There is nothing I want but your presence.In friendship, time dissolves.Life is a cup. This connectionis pure wine. What else are cups for?I used to have twenty thousanddifferent desires.

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The intelligent desire self-control, children want candy.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Life's waters flow from darkness. Search the darkness, don't run from it.

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You are so weak. Give up to grace.The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.You need more help than you know.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The word grows mad on the fermentOf angry actions, the authorities can only inflictVisible punishments. Now regard with the unpracticedInner eye the unseen presence of Judgement thenYou will understand the nature of your soul's torment

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silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

From Wetness and WaterHow does a part of the world leave the world?How can wetness leave water?Do not try to put out a fireby throwing on more fire.Do not wash a wound with blood.No matter how fast you run,your shadow more than keeps up.Sometimes it's in front.Only full, overhead sundiminishes your shadow.But that shadow has been serving you.What hurts you blesses you.Darkness is your candle.Your boundaries are your quest.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi