Rumi Heart Quotations

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.

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

The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked

Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.

Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
 your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
 yet you worry what people are saying.

Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

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

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.

Those who are pure in heart achieve God-consciousness; they are truly and actually aware of God at the center of their being (their heart). These sanctified individuals are said to be Possessors of the Heart.

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

What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart

If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.

A lifetime without Love is of no account Love is the Water of Life Drink it down with heart and soul!

There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in Love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds. This was ordained in creation. Only from the heart can you reach the sky: The Rose of Glory can grow only from the heart.

The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.

I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.

I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.

My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

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

There is a window from one heart to another heart.

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.

Be watchful - the grace of God appears suddenly. It comes without warning to an open heart.

Hear from the heart wordless mysteries.

When LOVE for GOD has been doubled in your HEART, there is no doubt that GOD has love for YOU.

Open the window of your heart and let the Spirit speak

The Heart of the matter is Soul, nothing else...

Be silent, Only the Hand of God Can remove The burdens of your heart.

If you put your heart against the earth with me In serving every creature, our Beloved will enter you From our sacred realm, and we will be, we will be So happy.

If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.

The moment an inspiring thought enters your heart, appreciate it as a dear guest visiting you that day.

Those with open hearts always have open hands.

Once you have met a true human being, Let him not disappear from the horizon of your HEART.

What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.

Whoever has Heart's doors wide open, could see the Sun itself in every atom.

If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.

With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.

In the middle of my heart, a star appeared, and the seven heavens were lost in its brilliance.

I can heal a broken heart with a smile.

Always check your inner state with the lord of your HEART.

I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky.

There's a path from your HEART to mine.

Deep in the HEART every mystery of spirit is hidden.

Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.

Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness.

The lover never despairs. For a committed heart everything is possible.

Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!

The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

We all face death in the end. But on the way, be careful never to hurt a human heart!

If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.

I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

Why set your heart on a piece ofearth,seek out the source which shines forever.

Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER.

The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn't find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was.

Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.

A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.

THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor, or a fire we can’t see, but how does saying that push us through the top of the head into the light above the head? Love is not an iron pot, so this boiling energy won’t help. Soul, heart, self. Beyond and within those is one saying, How long before I’m free of this torture!

A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.

I'm in love! Your advice, what are they? Love has poisoned me! Your remedies, what are they? I hear them shout: "fast, Bind him feet!" But if my heart that has gone mad! Those strings on my feet What is the point?

You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !

There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.

If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist.

Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.

Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?

The Heart that is not in love will fail the test.

O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.

My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.

My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

Do not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. "I come and go as I please," you say, "swift as a heartbeat." You can tease me as much as you like but never leave me.

Is your face a beautiful blossom or a sweet torture? I have no complaints but my heart is tempted to let you hear of its sorrows.

And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?

The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful.

My beloved grows right out of my own heart. How much more union can there be....

If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart.

Fasting is an amazing thing. It gives people heart and soul.

Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.

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

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

Your heart mirrors not His love, Rusty with your sins it is, Remove this rust and you shall Perceive how Glorious He is.

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

I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep it burning. I said: what about my heart? God said: Tell me what you hold inside it? I said: pain and sorrow? He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

When The Goodwill Of Hearts Is With You, Fountains Of Wisdom Will Begin To Flow From Within Your Own Being.

My sight My heart My Life All three words I have woven into one ... Love.

Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God.

Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the Meaning of Humility.

I have found the heart and will never leave This house of light.

There is a window between heart and heart: They are never separate like two bodies. Two lamps may not be united in their form - But their light merges into each other.

This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.

God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.