Quotes About Rumi

The Sufi's book is not of ink and letters; it is nothing but a heart white as snow. Rumi, Mathnawi II: 159

Come to the orchard in Spring.There is light and wine, and sweetheartsin the pomegranate flowers.If you do not come, these do not matter.If you do come, these do not matter.

come on, sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me. —RUMI

My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!

I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence

The poet Rumi saw clearly the relationship between our wounds and our awakening. He counseled, "Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

You cannot believe what you do not believe, Rumi siad. I am an Untouchable because my karma dictates it.

Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn't know you needed transforming.

A man once asked Rumi, "Why is it you talk so much about silence?" His answer: "The radiant one inside me has never said a word.

I like to hope that Rumi's poems, even in translation, carry the essence of the transforming friendship of Rumi and Shams, that the sun can reappear, whole and radiant in any one of us at any moment.

There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.

The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.

Cuando haces cosas desde el alma, sientes un río, un gozo que fluye en tu interior. RUMI

And Rumi tells us, 'Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue'.

Rumi advised me to keep my spirit up in the branches of a tree and not peek out too far, so I keep mine in the very tall willows along the irrigation ditch out back

Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.

Let's ask God to help us to self-control for one who lacks it, lacks his grace.

Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines. RUMI, from GRANITE AND WINEGLASS