“Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
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Famous Rumi Quotes
“Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.”
Source: The Pocket Rumi
“Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.”
“Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!”
“God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.”
“Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
Source: Selected poems
“Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.”
“When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.”
“I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.”
“Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.”
“Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.”
“The Beloved is with you in the midst of your seeking! He holds your hand wherever you wander.”
“To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.”
“Oh Soul! You worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds.”
“If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.”