Jalal Rumi Quotes (32 Quotes)

One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

How do the birds make great sky circles... They fall and falling they are given wings.

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

Liberated from suffering and searchI have tied myself to the skirt of God.If I fly, I look at the summits I ascend.If I go around in circleI observe the axis on which I revolve.If I am dragged by a burden,I know where I go.For I am the moon, and the sun is my guide.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomniasAnd the difference between them.

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

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

The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life

You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.

Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love .

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

Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.

The hurt you embrace becomes joy.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection

All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

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

The delight a friend feels when he hears a friends voice bring all that matters. There are those who hear within a voice the essence being said, and there are those who can't.

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 - more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Joy lives concealed in grief.

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.

Look at your heart and tongue, one feels but deaf and dumb, the other speaks in words and signs.

You are so weak. Give up to grace.The ocean takes care of each wavetill it gets to shore.

Don't look at your form, however ugly or beautiful. Look at love and at the aim of your quest...O you whose lips are parched, keep looking for water. Those parched lips are proof that eventually you will reach the source.

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

Why do you stay in prisonwhen the door is so wide openMove outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence.

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.

The way you make love is the wayGod will be with you.

Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry; You are in truththe soul, of the soul, of the soul.