Quotes from Rumi

There's no need to travel anywhere. Journey within yourself.

Be with those who help your being.

Let yourself become living poetry.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

Last night I begged the Wise One to tell me the secret of the world. Gently, gently, he whispered, "Be quiet, the secret cannot be spoken, It is wrapped in silence."

Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow.

The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.

Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.

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.

God looks not at your form, nor at your deeds, but at your Heart.

Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself.

The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.. The light which fills the heart is the light of God, which is pure and separate from the light of intellect and sense.

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.

God (in His mercy) accepts false coin.

Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al

Remember God so much that you are forgotten.

Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here.

Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.

Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.

Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.