Rumi

Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.

When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.

There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Listen to the sound of waves within you.

Be grateful for whoever comes because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Believe in love's infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love is life.

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.

Every prophet and every saint has a way, but all lead to God. All ways are really one.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

The ego is a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal.

The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

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

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more unseen forms become manifest to him.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

Come inside the heart's house. There is peace and solace there.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all

Submit to love without thinking, as the sun rose this morning recklessly extinguishing our star-candle minds.

Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes.

Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.

They are the chosen ones who have surrendered.

There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind I was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

All doubt, despair and fear become insignificant when the intention of life becomes love.

When your soul is looking for you, light a candle on its path.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Appear as you are, be as you appear.

Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.

Why are you knocking at every other door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.

Dance when youre broken open. Dance if youve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when youre perfectly free.

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

Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

If you want something, release the wish, and let it light on its desire, completely free of the personal.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.

Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

If you want the moon, do not hide at night. If you want a rose, do not run from the thorns. If you want love, do not hide from yourself.

The lion is most handsome when looking for food.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed cut holes in it and called it a human being. Since then its been wailing a tender agony of parting never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute.

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near the Truth.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

Because the Beloved wants to know unseen things become manifest. Hiding is the hidden purpose of creation.

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.

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Never lose hope, my heart, Miracles dwell in the invisible.

I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.

Raise your words not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers not thunders.

Don't seek the water; get thirst.

You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another not words.

The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute and who makes the music Not the flute. The Fluteplayer

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you dont have both you dont belong with us.

What you seek is seeking you.

The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

Quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.

Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.

The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

A rose's rarest essence lives in the thorn.

Be relentless in your looking, because you are the one you seek.

There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!

Inside any deep asking is the answering.

Happy is the moment, when we sit together, with two forms, two faces, yet one soul, you and I.

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.

Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.

Purify yourself from the attributes of self so that you may see your own pure untarnished essence.

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then theres another way a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.

Be suspicious of what you want.

Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.

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

The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.

Play the flute of felicity You yourself are the melody.

On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.

What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.