Quotes from Rumi

I have no fear to burn my mouth and throat I'm ready to drink every flame and more.

Although the road is never ending take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance... On this path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . . Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking . . . Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.

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

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.

There is nothing I want but your Presence. In friendship, time dissolves.

Do not look back, No one knows how the world ever began. Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever. If you dwell on the past or future, You will miss the moment.

How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.

Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.

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

I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

Heartsick, heartbroken To know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular That with it we probe the divine.