Quotes from Rumi

You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !

If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me; For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.

Don't wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.

Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.

Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!

We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.

I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.

No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.

There are no edges to my loving now.

Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.

Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.

Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.

The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.

Life s picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment.

My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.

I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.

True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.

Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen we have another life, as clear and free as a mountain stream.