Rumi Sky Quotations

Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.

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.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky

Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.

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.

The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.

Love means to reach for the sky and with every breath to tear a hundred veils. Love means to step away from the ego, to open the eyes of inner vision and not to take this world so seriously

If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.

You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely.

Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky.

Flowers open every night across the sky, a breathing peace, and sudden flame catching.

The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?

Oh sky, without me, do not change, Oh moon, without me, do not shine; Oh earth, without me, do not grow, Oh time, without me, do not go. ...Oh, you cannot go, without me.

Flowers every night Blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite, At peace am I.

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.

The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.

Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy.

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.

When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do.

Love calls - everywhere and always. We're sky bound. Are you coming?

Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky.

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.

Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere.

That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again

Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.