Rumi Quotes - Page 2

...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you,but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art.

The less you know, the more you will be knownThe less you want, the more you will haveThe less you are, the more you will be

Your transformation will be the miracle.

I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns.

Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance

Explore many facets of the written word.

I see the life with your sight,O" the love; you're my light.

Woman is the light of God.

Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
yet you worry what people are saying.

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his work took modern Western readers completely by surprise. The impact of its soulful beauty and the depth of its profound humanity were so intense that they reportedly prompted numerous individuals to spontaneously compose poetry.

If I could repeat it,people passing by would be enlightened and go free.

Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.

Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.

You broughtme your darkness& I loved youwith the radianttears of athousand suns.

The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.

Did I Not Say To YouDid I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this mirage of annihilation I am the fountain of life?” Even though in anger you depart a hundred thousand years from me, in the end you will come to me, for I am your goal. Did I not say to you, “Be not content with worldly forms, for I am the fashioner of the tabernacle of your contentment?” Did I not say to you, “I am the sea and you are a single fish; go not to dry land, for I am your crystal sea?” Did I not say to you, “ Go not like birds to the snare; come, for I am the power of flight and your wings and feet?” Did I not say to you, “ They will waylay you and make you cold, for I am the fire and warmth and heat of your desire?” Did I not say to you, “ They will implant in you ugly qualities so that you will forget that I am the source of purity to you?” Did I not say to you, “Do not say from what direction the ser- vant’s affairs come into order?” I am the Creator without directions. If you are the lamp of the heart, know where the road is to the house; and if you are godlike of attribute, know that I am your Maser.

Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!

If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.

Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.

Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World.

It is warmer here. Can you see the light? Trust it. It is safe. It has lived a long time. It has seen much more than you. You fight a demon that you once knew but the demon is already slain. And from the corner of your eye you will see the scattered, sacred fire reform again. Settle, settle. Peace, peace

And Rumi tells us, ‘Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue’.

Somewhere along the way, there develops within the soul a yearning that can no longer be ignored, a craving for the great love affair. We feel it drawing ever closer. It is the greatest of them all. It cannot fail. It is all consuming. It is incomparable. It is the love affair with our own true nature and the source from which it comes. The desire is in all of us but, more often than not, it is ignored for other interests. We wrestle with each interest, trying to make it work, growing with each adventure until the light has grown bright enough for us to reach for it.

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

If you want special illumination, look upon the human face:See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth.

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

....life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.

You know you have received the invitation when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God.

When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

You think of yourselfas a citizen of the universe.You think you belong to this world of dust and matter.Out of this dustyou have created a personal image,and have forgottenabout the essence of your true origin

Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.

Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.

If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.

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.

Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.

...purification was the point of such pain.

Dance is the ritual of immortality.

Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty.

...anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.

DANCE – Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression.

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

And I was your moon because I shined brighter than any other star in your universe and you were my darkness. Without you I could not see the depth of my light and with you I could set the night a glow. So we needed one another—the dark and the light. Your fear. My courage. Connected, but separated. Different, but the same. A synergy that made no sense, but every bit of sense. We were neither a beginning, nor an end. We were somewhere in between our madness at sunset and the reality we awakened to with each sunrise. We were the ghosts of timing and fate. We were neither fantasy, nor reality--- we were a purpose somewhere in between.

Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet heaven moves. That is the power of dance.

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

Imitating others, I failed to find myself. I looked inside and discovered I only knew my name. When I stepped outside I found my real Self. ~Rumi

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,no light and no land anywhere,cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface, yet I'm already underand living within the ocean.