Quotes from Rumi

From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean.

Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying.

Love's creed is separate from all religions.

The Heart that is not in love will fail the test.

Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning.

I said, "I just want to know you and then disappear." She said, "Knowing me does not mean dying.

Open your hands if you want to be held.

Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace.

Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do you want to come with us?

You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.

When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.

Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul.

Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.

War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.

Our death is our wedding with eternity.

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.