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Famous Rumi Quotes
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?”
“Don't look to anyone for your needs, for the One who created you, waters you.”
Source: Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit
“You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.”
“Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER.”
Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey
“I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me.”
Source: Selected poems
“The water has a Water that is driving it; The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.”