Quotes from Rumi

Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms.

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

Tonight the moon kisses the stars.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.

Now even the heavens are thankful that because of love I have become the giver of light.

Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.

Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.

Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?

The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.

When love is not accepted move on; when love is not appreciated walk away; hopefully time will teach what real, true love is.

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.

Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring.

A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.

Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.

Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.