Quotes from Rumi

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . .

Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.

Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul.

When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for one breath, in that moment you will find your true destiny. Alas, don't spoil this precious moment. Moments like this are very, very rare.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

We must die to become true human beings.

You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?

You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion

Once the seed of faith takes root, it cannot be blown away, even by the strongest wind - Now that's a blessing.

Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover.

Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.

Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.