Rumi

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Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe.
- Rumi
Collection: Silence
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In Silence there is eloquence.
- Rumi
Collection: Silence
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Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.
- Rumi
Collection: Running
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Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.
- Rumi
Collection: Worst Enemy
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Your real "country" is where you're heading, not where you are.
- Rumi
Collection: Country
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Our death is our wedding with eternity.
- Rumi
Collection: Death
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Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.
- Rumi
Collection: Be Kind
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Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.
- Rumi
Collection: Friendship
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It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him.
- Rumi
Collection: Animal
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Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.
- Rumi
Collection: Keys
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Criticism polishes my mirror.
- Rumi
Collection: Mirrors
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The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.
- Rumi
Collection: Beautiful
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Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.
- Rumi
Collection: Sky
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There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!
- Rumi
Collection: Wine
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When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.
- Rumi
Collection: Wisdom
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I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars.
- Rumi
Collection: Stars
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Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.
- Rumi
Collection: Giving
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You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.
- Rumi
Collection: Anxiety
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Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power.
- Rumi
Collection: Power
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There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.
- Rumi
Collection: Doors
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Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.
- Rumi
Collection: Passionate
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Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!
- Rumi
Collection: Spiritual
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God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note.
- Rumi
Collection: Inspirational
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A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another
- Rumi
Collection: Friendship
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The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.
- Rumi
Collection: Adversity
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My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.
- Rumi
Collection: Two
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Let yourself be loved, O Beloved, in the One. And from this One move out into the world, carrying within you the great potent energies of life to green your world, to create planets, suns, stars, stones, waves, oceans, to create new forms of life and expression - whether a friendship, a feeling or a new form of vocation.
- Rumi
Collection: Positive
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Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land of absence Be silent Don’t say a thing Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there
- Rumi
Collection: Land
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I will conquer the whole world and fill it with myself
- Rumi
Collection: World
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Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.
- Rumi
Collection: Gratitude
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Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.
- Rumi
Collection: Freedom
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A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
- Rumi
Collection: Writing
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Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!
- Rumi
Collection: Letting Go
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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart
- Rumi
Collection: Wisdom
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Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.
- Rumi
Collection: World
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Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen.
- Rumi
Collection: Perfection
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Inside any deep asking is the answering.
- Rumi
Collection: Asking
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Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.
- Rumi
Collection: Secret Places
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If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.
- Rumi
Collection: Love You
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If you only say one prayer in a day make it Thank You.
- Rumi
Collection: Prayer