Quotes from Rumi

What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being.

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

I am your own voice echoing off the walls of God

Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?

We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.

The one who has a good friend doesn't need any mirror.

The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.

O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.

O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.

If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.

I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.

Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.

Nothing can help me but that beauty. There was a dawn I remember when my soul heard something from your soul. I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me.

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home

You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home.

Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.

Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home. While you look for trinkets The treasure house awaits you in your own being.

The Soul is a stranger trying to find a Home somewhere that is not a where.

When there's no sign of hope in the desert, so much hope still lives inside despair. Heart, don't kill that hope.

Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.

One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear.