Rumi Quotes

...purification was the point of such pain.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

...anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

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.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

~ Aberjhani

Imitating others, I failed to find myself. I looked inside and discovered I only knew my name. When I stepped outside I found my real Self. ~Rumi

~ Maryam Mafi

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

~ Idries Shah

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

We both disliked rude rickshwalas, shepu bhaji in any form, group photographs at weddings, lizards, tea that has gone cold, the habit of taking newspaper to the toilet, kissing a boy who'd just smoked a cigarette et cetra. Another list. The things we loved: strong coffee, Matisse, Rumi, summer rain, bathing together, Tom Hanks, rice pancakes, Cafe Sunrise, black-and-white photographs, the first quiet moments after you wake up in the morning.

~ Sachin Kundalkar

You may think just a windowBut you overtook my soul.You are not just a whisper, You are louder than my soul. (from poem Chimera)

~ Deepa Bajaj

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

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

~ Idries Shah

The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.

~ Idries Shah

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.

~ Idries Shah

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.

~ Idries Shah

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

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

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

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

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.

~ Idries Shah

And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.

~ Idries Shah

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together

~ Idries Shah

Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.

~ Idries Shah

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

~ Idries Shah

When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.

~ Idries Shah

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

~ Idries Shah

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

~ Idries Shah

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

~ Idries Shah

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

~ Idries Shah

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his work took modern Western readers completely by surprise. The impact of its soulful beauty and the depth of its profound humanity were so intense that they reportedly prompted numerous individuals to spontaneously compose poetry.

~ Aberjhani

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

...see the blessing and beauty that you are.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

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

Your transformation will be the miracle.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.

~ Elif Shafak

You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God.

~ Holly Lynn Payne

In one moment, we are now forever,in one moment...

~ Paul Goldman