Quotes from Rumi

There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.

Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.

Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.

Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it.

The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?

Every need brings what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, And the marvelous answer appears.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

In the garden I see only your face From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance.

Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.

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.

Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open!

This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.

If you put your soul against the oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside of your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives within us.

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