The Best Jalaluddin Rumi quotes

If you # love love, look for yourself. — Rumi

Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love. — Rumi

Let the beauty we love do what we do. — Rumi

We are born of love. Love is our mother. — Rumi

Jesus was lost in his love for God. — Rumi

The glance of Love is crystal clear. — Rumi

Any one in love will have no religion. — Rumi

Speak with the language of love. — Rumi

A life without LOVE isn’t a life. — Rumi

Love is the sea where intellect drowns. — Rumi

Look at Love with the eyes of your Heart. — Rumi

Every love outside of HIS love, is pain. — Rumi

My religion is, to live through Love. — Rumi

To Love is to reach God. — Rumi

Kindle in thy heart the flame of love. — Rumi

Love is a river. Drink from it. — Rumi

Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there. — Rumi

It is Love that gives joy to happiness. — Rumi

Love is what gives joy to giving joy. — Rumi

Lots of ways to reach God, I chose love. — Rumi

You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern. — Rumi

We are all bathed in the same light. — Rumi

Bathe in the splendor of your own Light. — Rumi

We are the Sun with all the different kinds of Light. — Rumi

Lamps are different, but light is the same. — Rumi

Don’t you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World. — Rumi

The universe and the light of the stars come through me. — Rumi

If you wish for light, Be ready to receive light. — Rumi

The gates made of light swing open. You see in. — Rumi

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love. — Rumi

Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the Light. — Rumi

Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant. — Rumi

Woman is the light of God. — Rumi

Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins? — Rumi

If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home. — Rumi

In your light I learn how to love. — Rumi

Your body is woven from the Light of Heaven. — Rumi

Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining. — Rumi

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. — Rumi

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. — Rumi

Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away. — Rumi

There is a sun within every person. — Rumi

There is some kiss we want with the whole of our lives. — Rumi

In this life many demolitions are actually renovations. — Rumi

Let silence take you to the core of life. — Rumi

Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives. — Rumi

Joy lives concealed in grief. — Rumi

The rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorns. — Rumi

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? — Rumi

If you want money more than anything, you’ll be bought and sold your whole life. — Rumi

Live life as if its rigged in your favor. — Rumi

Choose love. Choose love. Without this beautiful love, life is nothing but a burden. — Rumi

In the silence of LOVE you will find the Spark of LIFE. — Rumi

A lover’s life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart. — Rumi

Snake’s poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means ‘death. — Rumi

What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life. — Rumi

World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters. — Rumi

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames — Rumi

Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments. — Rumi

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life. — Rumi

When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles. — Rumi

Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea. — Rumi

Life is balance of holding on and letting go. — Rumi

Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms. — Rumi

When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon. — Rumi

Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty. — Rumi

Don’t seek the water; get thirst. — Rumi

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support. — Rumi

The thirsty look for water, but water also looks for thirsty. — Rumi

Inside of us, there’s a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water. — Rumi

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being. — Rumi

Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon’s reflection. — Rumi

Don’t look to anyone for your needs, for the One who created you, waters you. — Rumi

I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me. — Rumi

Love is the water of life, jump into this water. — Rumi

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon. — Rumi

When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean. — Rumi

Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst. — Rumi

You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck. — Rumi

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire. — Rumi

The water has a Water that is driving it; The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it. — Rumi

Where lowland is, that’s where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure. — Rumi

For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain. — Rumi

Wherever water flows, life flourishes: wherever tears fall, Divine mercy is shown. — Rumi

Life’s waters flow from darkness. Search the darkness, don’t run from it. — Rumi

Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns. — Rumi

The world is nothing but a moment. — Rumi

No One in the Entire World is as Precious as You are. — Rumi

People of the world don’t look at themselves, and so they blame one another. — Rumi

The world is a playground, and death is the night. — Rumi

The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it. — Rumi

Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world. — Rumi

Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world. — Rumi

The world is a mirror, an imaging of Love’s perfection. — Rumi

Open your Eyes, for this World is only a Dream. — Rumi

Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite Universe. — Rumi

Dance from here to the other world–and don’t stop. — Rumi

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you? — Rumi

I am merely a guest, born in this world to know the secrets that lie beyond it. — Rumi

Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power. — Rumi

And even if this world burns up hidden harps will still play here. — Rumi

I have put duality away. I have seen the two worlds are one. — Rumi

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind. — Rumi

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you. — Rumi

You are the honoured guest, Do not weep like a beggar For pieces of the world. — Rumi

The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache. — Rumi

The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world. — Rumi

Hear from the heart wordless mysteries. — Rumi

The heart is the secret inside the secret. — Rumi

There is a window from one heart to another heart. — Rumi

There’s a path from your HEART to mine. — Rumi

The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit! — Rumi

Those with open hearts always have open hands. — Rumi

Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open! — Rumi

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. — Rumi

On this path let the heart be your guide. — Rumi

I found the Divine within my Heart. — Rumi

Deep in the HEART every mystery of spirit is hidden. — Rumi

Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips. — Rumi

Only from the heart can you touch the sky. — Rumi

I can heal a broken heart with a smile. — Rumi

The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God. — Rumi

The message behind the words is the voice of the heart. — Rumi

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. — Rumi

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction. — Rumi

What is the Heart? A flower opening. — Rumi

If you look too closely at the form, you miss the Essence. — Rumi

Close both eyes to see with the other eye. — Rumi

I look into your eyes & see the universe not yet born. — Rumi

There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it. — Rumi

Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you. — Rumi

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. — Rumi

How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean. — Rumi

When the ocean surges, don’t let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest! — Rumi

Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it. — Rumi

You’re not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. — Rumi

You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop. — Rumi

A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love’s presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known. — Rumi

One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear. — Rumi

Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. — Rumi

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean. — Rumi

There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings. — Rumi

The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please. — Rumi

You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive? — Rumi

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave ’til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know. — Rumi

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. — Rumi

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don’t need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around. — Rumi

If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long. — Rumi

Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours. — Rumi

Don’t see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty. — Rumi

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe. — Rumi

The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them. — Rumi

Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak. — Rumi

Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life? — Rumi

There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body. — Rumi

There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it. — Rumi

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what’s hidden. — Rumi

Behead yourself!… Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing! — Rumi

The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross. — Rumi

Don’t make the body do what the spirit does best, and don’t put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry. — Rumi

Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire. — Rumi

The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic. — Rumi

Body of earth, don’t talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor––Why talk of anything else? — Rumi

The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before. — Rumi

Although the road is never ending take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance… On this path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear. — Rumi

What does this patch–sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego–satisfactions. — Rumi

This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere. — Rumi

You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye–the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that. — Rumi

Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent. — Rumi