Quotes from Rumi

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.

New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.

Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

If without you I gather a rose, it turns thorn, But when you come back again, through you We return to fragrant and pink and petaled.

I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.

What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.

Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me. If I Cry About It, Or If I Don't, The Fire Is At Work, Night And Day.

No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover other's faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and danger. Be like the earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.

Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.

I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.

You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

The work of magic is this, that it breathes and at every breath transforms realities.

Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up as if you just heard something brilliant.

In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.

Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now.

Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.