Quotes from Rumi

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.

You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.

The Ego is a veil between humans and God'." "In prayer all are equal.

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home.

You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that.

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.

On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.

There's a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.

Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

The universe and the light of the stars come through me.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.