R K > R's Quotes

“When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“We do not create life, we create death.”
― Marie Symeou

“Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.”
― Rumi

“I am yours.
Don't give myself back to me.”
― Rumi

“Give your weakness to one who helps.”
― Rumi

“Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.”
― Rumi

“Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?”
― Rumi

“I see my beauty in you.”
― Rumi

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
― Rumi

“Dance until you shatter yourself.”
― Rumi

“Speak a new language
so that the world
will be a new world.”
― Rumi

“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”
― Rumi

“The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.”
― Rumi

“There are thousands of wines
that can take over our minds.

Don't think all ecstasies
are the same!

Jesus was lost in his love for God.
His donkey was drunk with barley.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.”
― Rumi

“There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.”
― Rumi

“Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.”
― Rumi

“Go back,
go back to sleep.

Yes, you are allowed.
You who have no Love in your heart,
you can go back to sleep.

The power of Love
is exclusive to us,
you can go back to sleep.

I have been burnt
by the fire of Love.
You who have no such yearning in your heart,
go back to sleep.

The path of Love,
has seventy-two folds and countless facets.
Your love and religion
is all about deceit, control and hypocrisy,
go back to sleep.

I have torn to pieces my robe of speech,
and have let go of the desire to converse.
You who are not naked yet,
you can go back to sleep.”
― Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi