Quotes from Rumi

Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.

I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.

The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.

The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, You'll never know the blessings that God gives.

Last night I learned how to be a lover of God. To live in this world and call nothing my own.

Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.

There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.

Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God.

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace

Sell Not Yourself At Little Price, Being So Precious In God's Eyes.

Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.

Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at meanspirited roadhouses.

When we talk about GOD, we're like a school of fish, discussing the possible existence of the sea.

You believe God is not there, but He is, Hidden in the secret of the divine mystery

We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces.

If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.

Every prophet and every saint has a way, But all lead to God. All ways are really one.

Keep silence, be mute. If you have not yet become the tongue of GOD, be an ear!