Rumi Want Quotations

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

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning.

There's courage involved if you want to become Truth.

I should be suspicious of what I want.

Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace.

You must ask for what you really want.

Open your hands if you want to be held.

There is nothing I want but your Presence. In friendship, time dissolves.

Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land of absence Be silent Don’t say a thing Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there

Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.

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

Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul.

There is some kiss we want with the whole of our lives.

Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

All we really want is love's confusing joy.

Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.

You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.

From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean.

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

The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.

There is nothing outside of yourself, look within. Everything you want is there. You are That.

Be suspicious of what you want.

Because the Beloved wants to know, unseen things become manifest. Hiding is the hidden purpose of creation.

I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful.

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.

Everything that you want, you are already that.

Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn and take a seat in another room. Soul-makers find each other’s company.

Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do you want to come with us?

You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep.

people want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain