Quotes from Rumi

The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing or two about whirling.

Love is the water of life, jump into this water.

Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?

Disharmony prevails when you confuse Lust with LOVE, while the distance between the two is endless!

Love is the house of God and you are living in that house.

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven't learned to love till you're insane

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.

What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and the leaf.

Every tree, every growing thing as it grows, says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow.

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.

The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.

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

Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors.

What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

Trust means you're ready to risk what you currently have.