Rumi Quotes

Did I Not Say To YouDid I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this mirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life?” Even though in anger you depart a hundred thousand years from me, in the end you will come to me, for I am your goal. Did I not say to you, “Be not content with worldly forms, for I am the fashioner of the tabernacle of your contentment?” Did I not say to you, “I am the sea and you are a single fish; go not to dry land, for I am your crystal sea?” Did I not say to you, “ Go not like birds to the snare; come, for I am the power of flight and your wings and feet?” Did I not say to you, “ They will waylay you and make you cold, for I am the fire and warmth and heat of your desire?” Did I not say to you, “ They will implant in you ugly qualities so that you will forget that I am the source of purity to you?” Did I not say to you, “Do not say from what direction the ser- vant’s affairs come into order?” I am the Creator without directions. If you are the lamp of the heart, know where the road is to the house; and if you are godlike of attribute, know that I am your Maser.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Somewhere along the way, there develops within the soul a yearning that can no longer be ignored, a craving for the great love affair. We feel it drawing ever closer. It is the greatest of them all. It cannot fail. It is all consuming. It is incomparable. It is the love affair with our own true nature and the source from which it comes. The desire is in all of us but, more often than not, it is ignored for other interests. We wrestle with each interest, trying to make it work, growing with each adventure until the light has grown bright enough for us to reach for it.

~ Donna Goddard

If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

And I was your moon because I shined brighter than any other star in your universe and you were my darkness. Without you I could not see the depth of my light and with you I could set the night a glow. So we needed one another—the dark and the light. Your fear. My courage. Connected, but separated. Different, but the same. A synergy that made no sense, but every bit of sense. We were neither a beginning, nor an end. We were somewhere in between our madness at sunset and the reality we awakened to with each sunrise. We were the ghosts of timing and fate. We were neither fantasy, nor reality--- we were a purpose somewhere in between.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance is the ritual of immortality.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

DANCE – Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet heaven moves. That is the power of dance.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where passion attains fulfillment.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

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

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

I see the life with your sight,O the love; you're my light.

~ Debasish Mridha

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets.The moon sets.But they are not gone.~Rumi

~ Jody West

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

~ Idries Shah

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

~ Idries Shah

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

~ Idries Shah

The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

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

I keepholding upthe mirror of the sun,so you can see the stunningreflections of everythingyou’re becom-ing.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

It is warmer here. Can you see the light? Trust it. It is safe. It has lived a long time. It has seen much more than you. You fight a demon that you once knew but the demon is already slain. And from the corner of your eye you will see the scattered, sacred fire reform again. Settle, settle. Peace, peace

~ Donna Goddard

Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

....life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.

~ Holly Lynn Payne