Rumi Quotes

One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies.

We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets.The moon sets.But they are not gone.~Rumi

You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see your treasure glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes.

We both disliked rude rickshwalas, shepu bhaji in any form, group photographs at weddings, lizards, tea that has gone cold, the habit of taking newspaper to the toilet, kissing a boy who'd just smoked a cigarette et cetra. Another list. The things we loved: strong coffee, Matisse, Rumi, summer rain, bathing together, Tom Hanks, rice pancakes, Cafe Sunrise, black-and-white photographs, the first quiet moments after you wake up in the morning.

Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those... whose existence is dance,

Die! Die! Die in this love!If you die in this love,Your soul will be renewed. Die! Die! Don’t fear the death of that which is knownIf you die to the temporal, You will become timeless.

‪You collide with destiny caught up in the mystery of walking the halls of a mind that's only inclined to recognize & expect victory.‬

Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone.

Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.

Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.

The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Only a handful of individuals in human history can be truly hailed as Christians, such as Tolstoy, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rumi, Martin Luther King Jr. and a few others.

The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man's pride.

Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.

In one moment, we are now forever,in one moment...

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together

When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where passion attains fulfillment.

Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.

If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.

It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.

I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.

Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.

Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.

Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.

O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.

Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.

You know how it goes:at some point in your life, you fell in love with someone and had a glimpse of God.Then you abandoned life and loverand started celebratingyour love for God.

The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.

Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!Forget your life, live!Forget yourself and be!

Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.

Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.

Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

No one is born beneath this dance. This dance gives birth to you.

i am anearthquake& dancemost heavilyupon all myfaults.

Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.

When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

You can'tstop dreamingjust becausethe night neverseems toend.

She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.

Do you know what you are?You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself;everything that you want, you are already that.

O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.

How can you be a lover of loveand not be a lover of God?It is impossible.

When I was a child, I saw God,I saw angels;I watched the mysteries of higher and lower worlds. I thought all men saw the same. At last I realized that they did not see.....

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

…the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community was to open the heart, explore the mystery of union,to fiercely search for and try to say the truth,and to celebrate the glory and difficulty in being in human incarnation.

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

...see the blessing and beauty that you are.

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.

A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you.Do not consider what strangers say.Be secluded in your secret heart-house,that bowl of silence.

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.

Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.