Rumi
This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.Collection: Spiritual
I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the differenceCollection: Sleep
Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!Collection: World
Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?Collection: Dancing
Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.Collection: Spiritual
Lo, for I to myself am unknown, now in God's name what must I do?Collection: Who I Am
And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?Collection: Heart
This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.Collection: Broken Heart
Oh lovers, where are you going? Who are you looking for? Your beloved is right here.Collection: Lovers
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.Collection: Spiritual
You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.Collection: Running
I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful.Collection: Flames
Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars.Collection: Health
The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.Collection: Giving
Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.Collection: Communication
A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.Collection: Love
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.Collection: Rocks
Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.Collection: Soul
I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul.Collection: Moon
Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is borne along by his own power and of his own volition. Every movement made by the drowned man - indeed, every act and word that issue from him - comes from the water, not from him... The saints are like this. They have died before death.Collection: Wisdom
When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon.Collection: Moon
Love calls - everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming?Collection: Spiritual
The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it.Collection: World
Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.Collection: Men
Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.Collection: Today
My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.Collection: House
Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.Collection: Wall
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.Collection: Love
This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.Collection: Spring
Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship.Collection: Love
Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything.Collection: Eye
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.Collection: Spring
The glance of Love is crystal clear.Collection: Love Is
The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being strong. The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are. It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves. It leaves the leaves alone.Collection: Strong
Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.Collection: Wise
Don't look for Love, look for the one looking for Love.Collection: Looking For Love
When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing.Collection: Singing
My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.Collection: Heart
Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.Collection: Self
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.Collection: Spiritual