When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men. Rumi More Quotes by Rumi More Quotes From Rumi Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things. Rumi goneyesterdaytoday Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God Rumi loversstoriessleep Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. Rumi sufisoulspiritual The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand. Rumi yogasoulmind 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 the sunset like supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep on. This Love is beyond the study of theology, that old trickery and hypocrisy. If you want to improve your mind that way, sleep on. I've given up on my brain. I've torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away. If you're not completely naked, wrap your beautiful robe of words around you, and sleep on Rumi sunsetspringbeautiful Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you. Rumi shepherdsactinglove Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything. Rumi spaceseatime The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end. Rumi hypocrisyfiresweet Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God. Rumi purposesoulearth Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman steals from others every day--is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close. Rumi angelcloudsmen People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion. Rumi wingsmeanreality Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty. Rumi secret-placesloversworld Leave that which is not, Rumi Stop learning. Start knowing Rumi knowing They are the chosen ones Rumi chosen-onelightsun All the particles of the World are in Love Rumi loverslooking-for-loveworld What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul? Rumi souldarklife Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore. Rumi oceanspiritualmoving The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love. Rumi fireheartlove You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who sprang at his image in the water, you are only hurting yourself, O foolish man. When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself. Rumi hatehurtmen
