Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fi...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can f...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Say I Am You

I am dust particles in sunlight.
I am the round sun.

To the ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Travel brings power and love back into your life.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, bl...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Prais...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen!
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished??
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do, and that
...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI For without you, I swear, the town
Has become like a prison to me.
Distraction and the mou...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI This is how I would die
into the love I have for you:
As pieces of cloud
dissolve ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Love calls - everywhere and always.
We're sky bound.
Are you coming?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this wor...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorn...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions
wit...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror refle...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.

The power of love came into me,
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You try to be faithful
And sometimes you're cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Wit...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI What you seek is seeking you.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way o...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have co...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind t...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI در غم ما روزها بی گاه شد
روزها با سوزها همراه شد
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI For the thirst to possess your love,
Is worth my blood a hundred times.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Woman is the light of God.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Soul, if you want to learn secrets,

your heart must forget about
shame
 and dignity....
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The cure for pain is in the pain.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no rejection,

I choose to l...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?

Look at yo...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI People want you to be happy.
Don't keep serving them your pain!

If you could untie y...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI BAK BİL Kİ ATLARIN ÖNÜNE İNCİLER SERİLMEZ.
MÜCEVHERLERDEN SARRAFLAR ANLAR ANCAK, BAŞKA...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, a...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The beauty you see me is reflection of you..
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I break out laughing. I frown.
I yell and scream. Sometimes,
if one jokes and giggles,
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI My heart is so small
it's almost invisible.
How can You place
such big sorrows in it...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don't go back to sleep!
You must ask for what...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI There is a place born of silence
A place where the whispers of the heart arise.
There is a...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Beauty surrounds us.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast!
For when you do, you will see thousands of ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come 'ro...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve k...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest wher...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trus...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you ast...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the ros...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.”

“In prayer all are equal.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Günleri say, senedini say, büyüklerini say, ama yerinde sayma.
Emek ver, kulak ver, bilgi ve...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have tw...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that o...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI When soul rises
Into lips
You feel the kiss
You have wanted
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Whenever we manage to love without expectations,
calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I am yours.
Don't give myself back to me.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a sheph...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Did I Not Say To You

Did I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI My lips got lost on the way to the kiss -
that's how drunk I
was.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Looking for Your Face

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI نحن من أولئك الذين يفرحون دون ذهب أو ثروات
نحن هادئو...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI إن كان حزني من أجلك يميتني كل لحظة، لا تميتني أنت.
ات�...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Two there are, who are never satisfied; The lover of the world and the lover of Knowledge.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can f...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی A wealth you cannot imagine
flows through you.
Do not consider what strangers say.
Be...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی True beauty is a ray
That springs from the sacred depths of the soul,
and illuminates the ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی İstediğin bir şey olmuyorsa ya daha iyisi olacağı için ya da gerçekten de olmaması gerektiğ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as a plant and rose to animal,
I died as an...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی Your body is away from me,
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warm...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی It would be as if a king sent you to a village on a specific mission. If you went and performed a hu...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.
Unbound by name and fame, he ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no wal...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.
I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian no...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
wasn't it first merely a thought a...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.

The hope...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had th...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the co...
RUMI I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
RUMI Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
RUMI Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
RUMI We are born of love; Love is our mother.
RUMI Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.
RUMI The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to ...
RUMI You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you...
RUMI There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grow...
RUMI This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning...
RUMI When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot i...
RUMI It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come...
RUMI Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the l...
RUMI That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, a...
RUMI If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
RUMI What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastri...
RUMI Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
RUMI Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badl...
RUMI Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
RUMI The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lo...
RUMI The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and ...
RUMI I spent millons of years in the world
of inorganic things
as a star, as a rock...
Then I di...
RUMI I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was ...
RUMI You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your ple...
RUMI The dust of many crumbled cities settles over us like a forgetful doze, but we are older than those ...
RUMI Let the beauty we love be what we do.
RUMI Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much h...
RUMI Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself....
RUMI Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
RUMI Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence ...
RUMI Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every ...
RUMI Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
RUMI Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can...
RUMI However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my ...
RUMI Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy...
RUMI That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
RUMI The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. L...
RUMI May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
RUMI May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
RUMI Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through...
RUMI There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
RUMI You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left ...
RUMI The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
RUMI Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
RUMI Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
RUMI