I long to see your face.
In the taste of Sweetness
I long to kiss your lips.
In the shadows of passion
I long for your love.
Rumi
You are the Essence of the Essence,
The intoxication of Love.
I long to sing your praises
but stand mute
with the agony of wishing in my heart.
Rumi
Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Rumi
The real beloved is your beginning and your end.
When you find that one,
you'll no longer expect anything else.
Rumi
Of the book of God
Thou art a copying,
A mirror, wherein showed
The beauty of the King.
All God ever wrought
Dwelleth not apart;
All thou hast ever sought,
Find it in thy heart.
Rumi
Those who don't feel this Love
pulling them like a river,
those who don't drink dawn
like a cup of spring water
or take in sunset like supper,
those who don't want to change,
let them sleep.
Rumi
With
passion pray. With
passion work. With passion make love.
With passion eat and drink and dance and play.
Why look like a dead fish
in this ocean
of
God?
Rumi
Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
Rumi
All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from,
And what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that,
And I intend to end up there.
Rumi
The Lover comes, the Lover comes!
Open the way for him!
He’s looking for a heart,
Let’s show him one.
I scream
“What you come to hunt is me!”
He says laughingly,
'I’m here not to hunt you but to save you.'
Rumi
Dance, when you’re broken open.
Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you’re perfectly free.
Rumi
From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it
Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for.
Rumi
I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty,
and wish to see you with a hundred eyes.
I am in the house of mercy,
and my heart is a place of prayer.
Rumi
In my vertigo, in my dizziness, in my drunken haze,
whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel,
I saw myself as the source of existence,
I was there at the beginning and I was the spirit of love.
Rumi
But learn
this custom
from the flower:
silence
your tongue.
Rumi
The garden of Love is green without limit
and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy.
Love is beyond either condition:
without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.
Rumi
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.
Rumi
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open,
you would be paralyzed.
Your deepest presence
is in every small contracting and expanding,
the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated
as bird wings.
Rumi
Your bright face is my day
Your dark curls bring the night
If you do not let me near you
I promise not go to sleep nor rise
Your magnificence has made me a wonder
Your charm has taught me the way of love
I am the progeny of Abraham
I'll find my way through fire.
Rumi
In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul
and you are that.
Rumi
I would love to kiss you.
The price of kissing is your life.
Now my loving is running toward my life shouting,
What a bargain, let's buy it.
Rumi
Late by myself, in the boat by myself
No light and no land anywhere
cloud cover thick, I try to stay
just above the surface, but I am already under
and living in the ocean of your love.
Rumi
Since I was cut from the reedbed,
I have made this crying sound.
Anyone apart from someone he loves
understands what I say.
Anyone pulled from a source
longs to go back.
Rumi
Is it your face
that adorns the garden?
Is it your fragrance
that intoxicates this garden?
Is it your spirit
that has made this brook
a river of wine?
Rumi
To Love is to reach God.
Rumi
There is a candle in your heart,
ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul,
ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?
Rumi
A rose's rarest essence lives in the thorn.
Rumi
There are amazing things in the ocean,
and there is one who is the ocean.
Rumi
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Rumi
There is no Love greater than Love with no object.
For then you, yourself, have become love itself.
Rumi
Because of your love
I have lost my sobriety
I am intoxicated
by the madness of love.
Rumi
In the garden
I see only your face
From trees and blossoms
I inhale only your fragrance.
Rumi
Drunk with the ecstasy of love
I can no longer tell the difference
betweeen drunkard and drink
Between lover and Beloved.
Rumi
That’s how you came here, like a star
without a name. Move across the night sky
with those anonymous lights.
Rumi
Because the idol is your face,
I have become an idolater.
Because the wine is from your cup,
I've become a drunkard.
In the existence of your love,
I have become non-existent.
This non-existence, linked to you,
is better than all existence.
Rumi
Many hearts have sought refuge from this love,
but it drags and pulls them to its own refuge.
RumiCome, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving, it doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times.
Come, yet again, come, come.
Rumi
Inscribed on Rumi's shrine in Konya, Turkey.
The heart has its own language.
The heart knows a hundred thousand
ways to speak.
Rumi
Heart and love have become friends.
Rumi
Wherever you are,
and whatever you do,
be in love.
Rumi
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
Rumi
The universe and the light of the stars come through me.
Rumi
And from beyond the intellect, beautiful Love
comes dragging her skirts, a cup of wine in her hand.
Rumi
Close both eyes
to see with the other eye.
Rumi
This outward Spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.
Rumi
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Rumi
The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
Rumi
The ruby and the sunrise are one.
Rumi
Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Rumi
Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.
Rumi
The beauty of the heart
is the lasting beauty:
its lips give to drink
of the water of life.
Rumi
Love said to me,
there is nothing that is not me.
Be silent.
Rumi
I worship the moon.
Tell me of the soft glow of a
candle light
and the sweetness of my moon.
Rumi
Oh Beloved,
take me.
Liberate my soul.
Fill me with your love and
release me from the two worlds.
If I set my heart on anything but you
let fire burn me from inside.
Oh Beloved,
take away what I want.
Take away what I do.
Take away what I need.
Take away everything
that takes me from you.
Rumi
In the early dawn of happiness
you gave me three kisses
so that I would wake up
to this moment of love.
Rumi
Love is that that never sleeps, nor even rests,
nor stays for long with those that do.
Love is language that cannot be said,
or heard.
Rumi
Let us fall in love again
and scatter gold dust all over the world.
Rumi
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.
Rumi
There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.
O traveler, if you are in search of that
Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.
Rumi
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
Rumi
God turns you from one feeling to another
And teaches by the means of opposites,
so that you will have two wings to fly,
Not one.
Rumi
Sit only under a tree
that is full of blossoms.
Rumi
Become the Light.
Rumi
The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.
Rumi
If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.
Rumi
If you dig a pit for others to fall into,
you will fall into it yourself.
Rumi
No mirror ever became iron again;
No bread ever became wheat;
No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
Become the light.
Rumi
We rarely hear the inward music,
but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless
directed by the one who teaches us,
the pure joy of the sun,
our music master.
Rumi
Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
Rumi
But knowing depends
on the time spent looking!
Rumi
Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.
Rumi
There is a candle in your heart,
ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul,
ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?
Rumi
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi
I was a secret treasure of kindness and generosity,
and I wished this treasure to be known,
so I created a mirror: its shining face, the heart;
it's darkened back, the world;
The back would please you if you've never seen the face.
Rumi
Love is the Water of Life.
Rumi
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Rumi
Because of love
I have become
the giver of light.
Rumi
It is Love that holds everything together, and it is the everything also.
Rumi
I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.
Rumi
Speak a new language
so that the world
will be a new world.
Rumi
You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
Rumi
There is some kiss we want with our whole lives,
the touch of spirit on the body.
Rumi
I am in Love with Love
and Love is in love with me.
My body is in Love with the soul
and the soul is in Love with my body.
I opened my arms to Love
and Love embraced me like a lover.
Rumi
Gamble everything for love,
if you’re a true human being.
Rumi
Every object, every being,
is a jar full of delight.
Rumi
The way you make love
is the way God will be with you.
Rumi
Love rests on no foundation.
It is an endless ocean,
with no beginning or end.
Rumi
Oh, my friend,
all that you see of me
is just a shell,
and the rest belongs to love.
Rumi
This divine love,
beckons us
to a world beyond
only lovers can see
with their eyes of fiery passion.
Rumi
Dear God,
Let all Lovers be content
Give them happy endings
Let their lives be celebration
Let their hearts dance in the fire of your Love.
Rumi
The lover is a king above all kings,
unafraid of death, not at all interested in a golden crown.
The dervish has a pearl concealed under his patched cloak.
Why should he go begging door to door?
Rumi
Whatever pearl you seek,
look for the pearl within the pearl!
Rumi
Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
Rumi
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet
Through Love all that is copper will be gold.
Through Love all dregs will turn to purest wine
Through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
Through Love the dead will all become alive.
Through Love the king will turn into a slave!
Rumi
The moon has become a dancer
at this festival of love.
Rumi
Love is the One who masters all things;
I am mastered totally by Love.
Rumi
They will ask you
what you have produced.
Say to them,
except for Love,
what else can a Lover produce?
Rumi
From the beginning of my life, I have been looking for your face,
but today, I’ve seen it.
Today I have seen the charm, the beauty, the unfathomable
grace of the face that I was looking for.
Rumi
I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty and wish
to see you with a hundred eyes.
Rumi
My heart has burned with passion and has searched forever for
this wondrous beauty that I now behold.
Rumi
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.
Rumi
Know that my beloved is hidden from everyone
Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs
Know that in my heart she is as clear as the MOON
Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul.
Rumi
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.
Rumi
You must marry your soul. That wedding is the way.
Rumi
You knock at the door of Reality.
You shake your thought-wings, loosen
your shoulders
and open.
Rumi
There is something in us
That has nothing to do with night and day,
Diamonds which come from no earthly mine.
Rumi
If the sun were not in love, he would have no brightness,
the side of the hill no grass on it.
The ocean would come to rest somewhere.
Rumi
This is the prayer of each:
You are the source of my life.
You separate essence from mud.
You honor my soul.
You bring rivers from the
mountain springs.
You brighten my eyes.
The wine you offer
takes me out of myself
into the self we share.
Doing that is religion.
Rumi
I was you
and never knew it.
Rumi
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Rumi
Everything in the universe is within you.
Ask all from yourself.
Rumi
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,
to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First, to let go of life.
In the end, to take a step without feet.
Rumi
