Rumi

Jalalud-Din Rumi quotes

I come to you, aching for you. You say, 'You're drunk. Go away.' I say 'No. I'm not drunk. Please open the door.' You say, 'You are, you are.. Go away'.

"You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it."

"Appear as you are,
Be as you appear."

Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, "I'll do nothing until I can be sure". Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

Whatever possessions 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.

What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest.

In this world of trickery emptiness is what your heart wants.

In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improves.

You wander from room to room
Hunting for the diamond necklace
That is already around your neck!

Travelers, it is late.
Life's sun is going to set.
During these brief days that you have strength,
be quick and spare no effort of your wings.

You suppose you are the trouble
But you are the cure
You suppose that you are the lock on the door
But you are the key that opens it
It's too bad that you want to be someone else
You don't see your own face, your own beauty
Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.

When you come looking for sugar,
your bag will be examined
to see how much it can hold;
it will be filled accordingly.

Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field.

I'll meet you there.

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whomever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.