Rumi Quotes

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. - Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

You are so weak. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore. - Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

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. - Jalal-Uddin Rumi

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. - Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home. - Rumi

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 insomnias! And the difference between them. - Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

We will briefly mention some peculiarities frequently manifested by a degenerate. He is tormented by doubts, seeks for the basis of all phenomena, especially those whose first causes are completely inaccessible to us, and is unhappy when his inquiries and ruminations lead, as is natural, to no result. - Max Nordau

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support. - Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it. Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute. - Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes. - Jalal Ad-Din Rumi