Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.
I am in Love with Love and Love is in love with me.
The lovers of God have no religion but God alone.
I have been so naughted in Thy Love’s existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence.
Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?
Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door – what a blessed key!
Till man destroys “self” he is no true friend of God.
Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it.
Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul.
Clean out your ears, don’t listen for what you already know.
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.
Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.
Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship.
Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they’ve indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.
No better love than love with no object.
True beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul...
Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. RUMI, attributed, Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.