Rumi Quotes

“Be melting snow.

Wash yourself of yourself.”

― Rumi

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”

― Rumi

“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”

― Rumi

“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;

How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”

― Rumi

“The same wind that uproots trees

makes the grass shine.

The lordly wind loves the weakness

and the lowness of grasses.

Never brag of being strong.

The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are.

It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves.

It leaves the leaves alone.”

― Rumi

“This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

I don't plan it.

When I'm outside the saying of it,

I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.”

― Rumi

“In your light I learn how to love.

In your beauty, how to make poems.

You dance inside my chest,

where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do,

and that sight becomes this art.

Drumsound rises on the air,

its throb, my heart.

A voice inside the beat says,

"I know you're tired,

but come. This is the way."

Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?

Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone?

Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups!

They swim the huge fluid freedom.”

― Rumi