Our original state is nonbeing, nonexistence, and we spend much of our lives trying to break free of matter, free of mind and desire, back into the deep region of being and nonbeing we are at the core. The refreshment of dreamless sleep when we are, but are not conscious, is a taste of it. We are here, then, but with no awareness of being here.

— Rumi

Rumi Quotes

Beautiful days do not come to you. You must walk towards them.

— Rumi

We have a huge barrel of wine, but no cups. That’s fine with us. Every morning we glow and in the evening we glow again. They say there’s no future for us. They’re right. Which is fine with us.

— Rumi

But there are those in bodies who are pure soul. It can happen. These messengers invite us to walk with them. They say, You may feel happy enough where you are, but we cannot do without you any longer. Please. So we walk.

— Rumi

Are you fleeing from love because of a single humiliation? What do you know of love except the name? Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain, and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion. Since love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal: it has no interest in a disloyal companion.

— Rumi

God put thorns around love’s door to stop anyone who’s not a lover from entering.

— Rumi

The world’s existence is not in the world.

— Rumi

God has given us a dark wine so potent that, drinking it, we leave the two worlds.

— Rumi

I walk into a huge pasture. I nurse the milk of millennia.

— Rumi

You might get clever and say, “My doubting God’s existence was willed by God.” Only half true. You also chose to doubt.

— Rumi

It’s not me that’s glorified in acts of worship. It’s the worshipers! I don’t hear the words they say. I look inside at the humility. That broken-open lowliness is the reality, not the language! Forget phraseology. I want burning, burning.

— Rumi

Dance when you are perfectly free and enjoy every step along the way.

— Rumi

Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light. So come, return to the root of the root of your own soul.

— Rumi

Your noise is my silence.

— Rumi

Whether slow or speedy, he that seeks will find. Always apply with both hands the pursuit. For search is an excellent guide.

— Rumi

Whatever happens. Whatever what is is is what I want. Only that. But that.

— Rumi

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

— Rumi

To the mind there is such a thing as news, whereas to inner knowing, it’s all in the middle of its happening. To doubters, this is a pain. To believers, it’s gospel. To the lover and the visionary, it’s life as it’s being lived.

— Rumi

When was the last time you found treasure coffers ensconced in your own house? Treasures always hide among old ruins and wreckage.

— Rumi

There are two intellects! One is acquired from teachers and books, from repetition and sciences, granting a sense of superiority yet the effort to sustain it becomes a great burden. It ends just as the water supply coming from outside a house stops once the source has dried up. The other intellect is God’s gift. With a fountainhead in the heart of Spirit the water of knowledge bubbling from within can never become stagnant or old. Seek that fountain within yourself!

— Rumi

The lover’s ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God.

— Rumi
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