Quotes By Author: Rumi

“Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a desert plain. For us, there is a passion in the midst of that expanse. The knower who reaches there will prostrate, there is neither Islam nor unbelief, nor any ‘where’ in that place.”

“A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you.Do not consider what strangers say.Be secluded in your secret heart-house,that bowl of silence.”

“It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.”

“If you are seeking, seek us with joyFor we live in the kingdom of joy.Do not give your heart to anything elseBut to the love of those who are clear joy,Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –Do not go in the direction of darkness –I tell you: suns exist.”

“You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you,but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art.”

“This poetry. I never know what I’m going to say.”

“I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as a plant and rose to animal,I died as an animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I’ll meet you there.”

“I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns.”

“Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty.”

“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell youDon’t go back to sleep!You must ask for what you really want.Don’t go back to sleep!People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,The door is round and openDon’t go back to sleep!”

“How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.”

“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”