Rumi Light Quotations

No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light.

Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset

Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.

There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

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

Don't be fooled by my beauty - the light of my face comes from the candle of my spirit.

Now even the heavens are thankful that because of love I have become the giver of light.

If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?

Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the Light.

Bathe in the splendor of your own Light.

Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless.

Once we were particles of Light, now we are Beings of Light, radiating Love.

Here is a relationship booster that is guaranteed to work: Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid make your eyes light up as if you just heard something brilliant.

Lamps are different, but light is the same.

The body itself is to reveal the light that's blazing inside your Presence.

You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern.

Your body is woven from the light of heaven. Are you aware that its purity and swiftness is the envy of angels and its courage keeps even devils away.

Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.

Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.

In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says" your beauty lights up everything around you.

You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.

Nothing can nourish the soul but LIGHT. Rid yourself of material needs and be set FREE.

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

Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.

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.

How far is the light of the moon from the moon? How far is the taste of candy from the lip?

We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine.

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

I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.

I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel. Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away. A Light came and kindled a Flame in the depth of my Soul. A Light so radiant that the sun orbits around it like a butterfly.

A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth.

Your task? To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light.

Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant.

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

This is Now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire.

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless. Although I may try to describe love, when I experience it, I am speechless. Although I may try to write about love, I am rendered helpless. My pen breaks, and the paper slips away at the ineffable place where lover loving and loved are one. Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.

All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light.

The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman steals from others every day--is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.

They are the chosen ones who have surrendered ... Once they were particles of light now they are the radiant sun!

When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.

Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.

We are all bathed in the same light.

We are the Sun with all the different kinds of Light.

Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining.

Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale.

A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle.

There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light from another source.

I’ve been looking for a long, long time, for this thing called love, I’ve ridden comets across the sky, and I’ve looked below and above. Then one day I looked inside myself, and this is what I found, A golden sun residing there, beaming forth God’s light and sound.

How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.

The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.. The light which fills the heart is the light of God, which is pure and separate from the light of intellect and sense..

Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.

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.

Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.

The gates made of light swing open. You see in.

Woman is the light of God.

Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.

Don't you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.

Your body is woven from the Light of Heaven.

Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.

If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light.

In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a lid on this racket. No telling what I'll do then. Every moment I'm thrown by your story. One moment it's happy, and I'm singing. One moment it's sad, and I'm weeping. It turns bitter, and I pull away. But then you spill a little grace, and just like that, I'm all light. It's not so bad, this arrangement, actually.

Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.

There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.

Nothing can nourish the SOUL but LIGHT.

Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?

From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.

You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

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

Sometimes the shadow stays next to the Light. Sometimes it disappears into the Light

Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.

If you wish for light, Be ready to receive light.

The universe and the light of the stars come through me.

In your light I learn how to love.