Quotes from Rumi

I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.

I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Beauty surrounds us.

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.

I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.

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

A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.

Isn't it time to turn your heart into a temple of fire?

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears.

Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruit other than sorrow and joy.

Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing.

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

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.