Rumi Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

I am yours.
Don't give myself back to me.

To live without you
is to be robbed of love
and what is life without it?
To live without you
is death to me, my love
but some call it life.

Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?

You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do, and that
sight becomes this art.

You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don't.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.

You are an ocean in a drop of dew,
all the universes in a thin sack of blood.

What are these pleasures then,
these joys, these worlds
that you keep reaching for,
hoping they will make you more alive?

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?

Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

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.