Rumi Quotes Quotes

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river of joy within you.

"Rumi”
― Rumi

“What are mere pearls when you’ll become the ocean,
And that bright sun with its revolving motion!”
― Rumi, Masnawi

“I am another you, you are another me.”
― Mawlana Jalal-ud-din Rumi

“While the Mystic masters prided themselves on being 'lunatic', this was understood in two distinct senses: one, a lunacy below reason, and another, a lunacy above reason. The second type of lunacy, in the words of Shakespeare, is a 'fine frenzy', whereas the first type is the neurotic or psychotic insanity belonging to the field of abnormal psychology. Thus, where Rumi exclaims:

I am a lover, skilled in the arts of madness;
I am surfeited with culture and learning.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz

“Outer eyes are the inner eyes’ reflection,
For outer eyes are under their direction....”
― Rumi , Masnawi

“A donkey stuck in mud is logic's fate
Love's nature only love can demonstrate”
― Rumi, The Masnavi of Rumi, Book One: A New English Translation with Explanatory Notes

“A donkey stuck in mud is logic's fate
Love's nature only love can demonstrate”
― Jawid Mojaddedi, The Masnavi: Book One

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crwal through life?”
― Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Rumi

“In his mystical epic "The Rhyming Spiritual Couplets" (Mathnawi-yi ma'nawi), Rumi frequently celebrates the Religion of Love. The following verse from his Mathnawi constitutes his most famous statement concerning the pre-eminence of this higher secta amoris:

  Love's state is apart
     From religions and faith
  God is the lover's creed—
     God is the lover's state.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz

“The world's a mountain, actions like a shout, your echo will return to you, watch out!”
― Jawid Mojaddedi, The Masnavi: Book One

“Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.”
― Rumi

“Know it for certain that the lover's not a Muslim
For in the creed of love there's neither infidelity
Or faith; since once you fall in love, you have no body,
No soul, no heart, no mind: who ain't like this, ain't nothin.

_Rumi”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz

“The true believers within every religion, as Rumi puts it, are like rays of a single lamp:

   If ten lamps are together in one place
      each one is different from the next in form.
   You cannot tell apart the light of each
      when you are looking at them, there is no doubt.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz

“From nothingness we have become together,
Like a soul and its creator forever.”
― Bzam

“It's impossible for me to remove you from my heart
So that I can have a rest.”
― Bzam

“I never plan what to write,
When I am writing for you,
The message is being sent from my heart.”
― Bzam

“Make your soul speak to your mind,
It is the guide.”
― Bzam

“You my friend are missing the point though
Let go of that curse you call ego

You’ll see a wealth immersed inside of you
No words to give justice
, it's beautiful

A light so bright divine, it's powerful
Rumi in you sees plenty potential”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“Come with me
Just let's let our words rest
Time for you to
Join God’s shibboleth

Take a deep breath
And you will see
The truth inside
Sufi rhapsody

The truth inside
Dancing blissfully
The truth inside
A gift from the Almighty

The truth inside
Your spirit is heavenly
Heed my words dear one
Signing off Mowlavi”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“A King wanted a ring that had magical properties that made a happy man who looked at it, sad, and if a sad man looks at it, he becomes happy.
The King who thought it was a fools erand gave his trusted advisor 6 months to find it, when the advisor retuned with a ring that had words engraved on it the King was surprised, when the King saw it his face fell. It read; This time will pass.”
― -Rumi

“আমি তার শূন্য ভিক্ষা থালা"

Adaptation: Rumi”
― Mriganka Sekhar Ganguly

“Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.”
― Rumi

“When mystics proudly announce that they 'revel in the delights of desire (havas),' their apparently sybarite sentiment takes as its transcendental reference point the 'grand desire' of the adept to realize freedom from selfhood, as Rumi states:

   There lies in no man's head
      Such desire as lies in mine;
   The desire I sense is such that
      I'm bereft of all ken of self.”
― Hossein Elahi Ghomshei PhD, Beauty, Love, and Wisdom in Persian Poetry: From Attar to Rumi, Shabistari and Hafiz