Quotes from Rumi

Except for Love, nothing you see will remain forever.

Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love. Do it.

I merged so completely with love, and was so fused, that I became Love and Love became me.

Love is fearless in the midst of the sea of fear.

There is no worse torture than knowing intellectually about love and the way.

Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls

If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted.

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

The Law of Wonder rules my life at last, ...I burn each second of my life to Love Each second of my life burns out in Love In each leaping second Love lives afresh.

You know what love is? It is all kindness, generosity.

I said, O Love, tell me this: Does the Lord know you are treating me this way? Love said to me, yes He does, just be totally… totally… silent

Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now.

To Love is to reach God.

If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love.

A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.

It is Love and the Lover that live eternally - Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.

LOVE will lay a carpet of treasures under your feet.

Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love, if you are too careful, LOVE will not find you.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

Lovers drink wine all day and night and tear the veils of the mind. When drunk with love's wine, body, heart and soul become one.

Embark on the journey of LOVE. It takes you from yourself to yourself.