Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say.
- Rumi
I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.
- 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
Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
- Rumi
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
- Rumi
The lower self does not want anyone to receive anything from anybody else, and if it is aware of something receiving a special boon, it seeks to destroy it.
- Rumi
Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.
- Rumi
Out beyond ideas of right and wrong doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
- Rumi
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
- Rumi
You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
- Rumi
Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still.
- Rumi
The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please.
- Rumi
He whose intellect overcomes his desire is higher than the angels; he whose desire overcomes his intellect is less than an animal.
- Rumi
The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
- Rumi
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
- Rumi
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
- Rumi
The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.
- Rumi
If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.
- Rumi
Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.
- Rumi
