Rumi Love Quotations

We are born of love. Love is our mother.

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.

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.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.

Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

Believe in love's infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love is life

Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart

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.

Speak with the language of love.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky

Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is.

Love is language that cannot be said, or heard.

You know what love is? It is all kindness, generosity.

The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.

If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

Embark on the journey of LOVE. It takes you from yourself to yourself.

I was you and never knew it.

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

Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love, if you are too careful, LOVE will not find you.

Love alone can explain the mysteries of Love.

A life without LOVE isn’t a life.

My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo, its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompases every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

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

Love is nothing other than finding the truth.

There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.

All the world Loves You, but You are nowhere to be found, Hidden and yet . . . completely obvious!

I opened my arms to Love and Love embraced me like a Lover

Don't look for Love, look for the one looking for Love.

O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all...

Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words.

Love is the way messengers from the mystery tell us things

Only love itself can explain love and lovers.

Go to the well of deep Love inside each of Us.

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.

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.

Reality is blocked by form and image.

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!

The glance of Love is crystal clear.

If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But if your heart is already awakened, Sleep peacefully, sleep in the arms of Love

Through love the devil becomes an angel. Through love stones become soft as butter. Through love grief is like delight. Through love demons become the servants of God.

Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.

Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.

Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there.

Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.

To Love is to be God. Never will a Lover's chest feel any sorrow. Never will a Lover's robe be touched by mortals. Never will a Lover's body be found buried in the earth. To Love is to be God.

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you,

I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.

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.

There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.

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

Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.

Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain.

I am in Love with Love and Love is in love with me.

Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship.

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

Jesus was lost in his love for God.

Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.

Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace.

You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.

I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things.

I am amazed at the seeker of purity When time for polishing comes Complaints of harsh treatment Love is a lawsuit Without evidence, you will not win My son, when one beats the rug The beating is not intended against the rug But against the dust inside the rug My son, that harsh treatment Is not intended against you But against the ill qualities inside you

I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.

I look into your eyes & see the universe not yet born.

You live in my heart where no one sees you but I do. That vision becomes this art.

I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still!

Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.

For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.

You moan, "She left me." "He left me," Twenty more will come.

Every bird will follow it's specie.

For me to praise is interrupting praise.

There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? You feel the separation from the Beloved. Invite Him to fill you up, embrace the fire.

Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work.

There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts.

Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.

Nearness to God is common to us all, Because we're all created and sustained by God, But only the authentically noble Possess and live that nearness That's a constant upswelling passion of love.

The Silk Worm I stood before a silk worm one day. And that night my heart said to me, "I can do things like that, I can spin skies, I can be woven into love that can bring warmth to people; I can be soft against a crying face, I can be wings that lift, and I can travel on my thousand feet throughout the earth, my sacs filled with the sacred." And I replied to my heart, "Dear, can you really do all those things?" And it just nodded "Yes" in silence. So we began and will never cease.

Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with it we probe the divine.

Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade.

LOVE is what gives joy to giving joy.

Whatever you know, or don’t - only Love is real.

There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in love.

Love is the sea where intellect drowns.

Love's creed is separate from all religions.

The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which have made men and women weepfor centuries, even those have changed now.What used to be pain is a lovely benchwhere we can rest under the roses.A left hand has become a right.A dark wall, a window.A cushion in a shoe heel,the leader of the community!Now silence. What we sayis poison to someand nourishing to others.What we say is a ripe fig,but not every bird that flieseats figs.

We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now!

In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.

The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder.

When love is not accepted move on; when love is not appreciated walk away; hopefully time will teach what real, true love is.

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.

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

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.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love and being a Lover. The way of our prophets is the way of Truth. If you want to live, die in Love; die in Love if you want to remain alive.