Quotes from Rumi

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.

...smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.

Water the fruit trees and don't water the thorns.

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

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.

There is a way of breathing that's a shame and a suffocation and there's another way of expiring, a love breath, that lets you open infinitely.

This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I'll be completely sober.

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.

Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.

Where will you plant your grief-seeds? We need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.

Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and become a seeker of hearts.

You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper!

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment.

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.