Rumi Life Quotations

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

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.

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

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

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

Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?

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

A life without LOVE isn’t a life.

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

The soul lives there in the silent breath.

The Law of Wonder rules my life at last, ...I burn each second of my life to Love Each second of my life burns out in Love In each leaping second Love lives afresh.

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself

To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it? To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.

Live life as if its rigged in your favor.

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

God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him.

The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar- eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life.

God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

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

I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.

What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul?

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.

There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.

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

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.

This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly, no grand discourse, no proper schooling required. There is no master, no disciple. This gathering is more like a drunken party, full of tricksters, fools, mad men and mad women. This is a gathering of Lovers.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation? What do you know of Love except the name? Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain, and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion. Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal: it has no interest in a disloyal companion. The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God: that root must be cherished with all one's might.

Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow.

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

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

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

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

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

Bitter your acts, bitter am I, Kindness your deeds, kindness am I, Pleasant and gentle, so you are, Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

The soul is here for its own joy.

In truth everything and everyone Is a shadow of the Beloved, And our seeking is His seeking And our words are His words... We search for Him here and there, while looking right at Him. Sitting by His side, we ask: 'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.

The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.

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

Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings

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