Rumi: Quotes about love
Rumi was Iranian poet. Explore interesting quotes on love.
“Love said to me,
there is nothing that is not me.
Be silent.”
Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)
“Gamble everything for love,
if you are a true human being.”
"On Gambling" Ch. 18 : The Three Fish, p. 193
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)
“Love rests on no foundation.
It is an endless ocean,
with no beginning or end.”
Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)
“When in Love,
body, mind, heart and soul don't even exist.”
Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)
“Listen with ears of tolerance!
See through the eyes of compassion!
Speak with the language of love.”
https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21
Jewels of Remembrance (1996)
Context: Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?
What do you know of Love except the name?
Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,
and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.
Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:
it has no interest in a disloyal companion.
The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:
that root must be cherished with all one's might.
“Quit acting like a wolf, and feel
the shepherd's love filling you.”
"A Community of the Spirit" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)
"The Forty Rules of Love" (2010) by Elif Şafak (The book is about Rumi, but the quote is the author's own words)
Misattributed
“What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
of your love, that somehow contains
the entire universe.”
"Where are we?" in Ch. 2 : Bewilderment
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)
Helen Schucman in A Course in Miracles (1976) by Helen Schucman and William Thetford, Ch. 16 The Forgiveness of Illusions, p. 338,#6.
Misattributed
“They will ask you
what you have produced.
Say to them,
except for Love,
what else can a Lover produce?”
Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)
Rumi, quoted from Harsh Narain, Myths of Composite Culture and Equality of Religions (1990) p. 20-21 https://archive.org/details/MythOfCompositeCultureHarshNarain
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.