Rumi Quotes (148 quotes, page 3) | Quotes of famous people

“This dance is the joy of existence. I am filled with you.
Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul.
There's no room for lack of trust, or trust.
Nothing in this existence but that existence.”

Rumi

"We Three" Ch. 11 : Union
The Essential Rumi (1995)

Soul , Joy , Dance

“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

Essential Sufism (1997)

Fear

“We have a way from this visible world to the Unseen,
For we are the companions of Religions Messenger.
We have a way from the house to the garden,
we are the neighbor of the cypress and jasmine.
Every day we come to the garden
and see a hundred blossoms.
In order to scatter them among the lovers,
we will our robes to overflowing. Behold our words!
They are the fragrance of those roses -
we are the rosebush of certainty's rose garden.”

Rumi

Divan as quoted in Classical Islam and the Naqshbandi Sufi Tradition By Muhammad Hisham Kabbani p.195

World , Religion , Way , Lovers

“Many have been led astray by the Qur'an:
by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well.
There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man,
for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.”

Rumi

III, 4210-11
Jewels of Remembrance (1996)

“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

As quoted in "A feather on the breath of God" by Nur Elmessiri in Al-Ahram Weekly Online Issue No. 385 (9 - 15 July 1998) http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/1998/385/cu2.htm

Men , God , Fish

“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

Essential Sufism (1997)

Love , God , Drink , Water

“From Hallaj, I learned to hunt lions, but I became something hungrier than a lion.”

Rumi

"Hallaj" Ch. 11 : Union
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)

Learning

“Even if you lose yourself in wrath
for a hundred thousand years,
at the end you will discover,
it is me, who is the culmination of your dreams.”

Rumi

Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)

Dreams

“I have endowed everyone with a temperament of his own, given everyone an idiom of his own; so that what is praise for him is blame for thee, what is honey for him is poison for thee, what is light for him is fire for thee, what is rose for him is thorn for thee, what is good for him is evil for thee, what is beautiful for him is ugly for thee. In the people of Hindustan the idiom of Hindustan is praiseworthy; in the people of Sind, the idiom of Sind is praiseworthy. I do not see the outward and the speech; I see the inward and the state [of feeling]. For the heart is the substance and speech an accident. So, the accident is subservient, the substance is the [real] object. The religion of love stands apart from all religions. For lovers the [only] religion and creed is God.”

Rumi

Rumi, quoted from Harsh Narain, Myths of Composite Culture and Equality of Religions (1990) p. 20-21 https://archive.org/details/MythOfCompositeCultureHarshNarain

Love , God , People , Religion

“The place that Solomon made to worship in,
called the Far Mosque, is not built of earth
and water and stone, but of intention and wisdom
and mystical conversation and compassionate action.”

Rumi

"The Far Mosque" in Ch. 17 : Solomon Poems, p. 191
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)

Wisdom , Water

“We talk about this and that. There’s no rest except on these branching moments.”

Rumi

"Spring is Christ" in Ch. 4 : Spring Giddiness, p. 38
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)

“Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,
Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.”

Rumi

The Masnavi, Book IV, Story II, as translated in Masnavi I Ma'navi : The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí (1898) by Edward Henry Whinfield
As quoted in The Perennial Philosophy (1945) by Aldous Huxley
Variant: Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.

Love , Way

“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

"Who says words with my mouth?" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)

Soul , Idea , Thinking , Night

“Do not believe in an absurdity
no matter who says it.”

Rumi

"The Three Fish" Ch. 18 : The Three Fish, p. 196
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)