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


Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lo...
RUMI
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lo...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. L...
RUMI
The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind t...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.

RUMI
BAK BİL Kİ ATLARIN ÖNÜNE İNCİLER SERİLMEZ.
MÜCEVHERLERDEN SARRAFLAR ANLAR ANCAK, BAŞKA...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You know how it is when you first start out. You have to pay your dues, and he was looking for write...
AJ CASE
I was looking (but not seriously) for a building to expand my . . . book business. I saw this beauti...
DAVE CRAIG
Cancağızım; ne kadar söz varsa düne ait, dünle birlikte gitti' demiş ya Şanı Yüce Rûmî; ...
NELDAN OSMANCıK
That was the first song I heard from another writer when we first started to listen to outside songs...
LUIS FONSI
Each day you tell me how much she means to you and how little you care for me. Not knowing that ever...
GERMANGIRL24
Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.
SAM TSUI
The sun was shining in my eyes, and I could barely see to do the necessary task that was allotted me...
EARL MUSSELMAN
I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the r...
KEANU REEVES
Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I remember I had to play a blind person once, and I did this stupid thing with my eyes, and I knew t...
KIT HARINGTON
Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ...
JACK BRUCE
When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitaris...
WADADA LEO SMITH
It was annoying to me the first time I ever heard it. Mind you, I had to go perform that all the tim...
LINDA PERRY
I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.
ICE CUBE
It thought about the magic that happens when you tell a story right, and everybody who hears it not ...
KATHERINE HANNIGAN
The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
RUMI
My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on...
OCTAVIA SPENCER
Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ...
JACK BRUCE
I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one sto...
MICHAEL WINTER
I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland...
HANNAH KENT
I was looking at the clock and I knew my season was a minute from ending. I was just hoping that som...
ARCHIE MIAWAY
I was shocked when I heard my uncle, Soo Jo, was looking for me. I didn't expect him to be alive,
KIM JONG IL
I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was '...
DAVID HASSELHOFF
But I didn't know about the other story."
"What other story?”
"About how you and Adrian ...
RICHELLE MEAD
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without comple...
PABLO NERUDA
Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fi...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can f...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Say I Am You

I am dust particles in sunlight.
I am the round sun.

To the ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, bl...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Prais...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen!
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished??
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do, and that
...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
For without you, I swear, the town
Has become like a prison to me.
Distraction and the mou...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
This is how I would die
into the love I have for you:
As pieces of cloud
dissolve ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Love calls - everywhere and always.
We're sky bound.
Are you coming?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this wor...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorn...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions
wit...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror refle...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.

The power of love came into me,
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You try to be faithful
And sometimes you're cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Wit...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
What you seek is seeking you.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way o...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have co...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
در غم ما روزها بی گاه شد
روزها با سوزها همراه شد
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
For the thirst to possess your love,
Is worth my blood a hundred times.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Woman is the light of God.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Soul, if you want to learn secrets,

your heart must forget about
shame
 and dignity....
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The cure for pain is in the pain.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no rejection,

I choose to l...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?

Look at yo...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
People want you to be happy.
Don't keep serving them your pain!

If you could untie y...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI

More Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fi...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can f...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Say I Am You

I am dust particles in sunlight.
I am the round sun.

To the ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, bl...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Prais...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Let go of your mind and then be mindful.
Close your ears and listen!
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished??
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do, and that
...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
For without you, I swear, the town
Has become like a prison to me.
Distraction and the mou...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
This is how I would die
into the love I have for you:
As pieces of cloud
dissolve ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Love calls - everywhere and always.
We're sky bound.
Are you coming?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this wor...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorn...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions
wit...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror refle...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.

The power of love came into me,
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You try to be faithful
And sometimes you're cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Wit...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
What you seek is seeking you.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way o...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have co...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind t...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
در غم ما روزها بی گاه شد
روزها با سوزها همراه شد
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
For the thirst to possess your love,
Is worth my blood a hundred times.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Woman is the light of God.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire. JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Soul, if you want to learn secrets,

your heart must forget about
shame
 and dignity....
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Oh sky, without me, do not change,
Oh moon, without me, do not shine;
Oh earth, without me...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The cure for pain is in the pain.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no rejection,

I choose to l...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?

Look at yo...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
People want you to be happy.
Don't keep serving them your pain!

If you could untie y...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
BAK BİL Kİ ATLARIN ÖNÜNE İNCİLER SERİLMEZ.
MÜCEVHERLERDEN SARRAFLAR ANLAR ANCAK, BAŞKA...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill
let yourself fall ill.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, a...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The beauty you see me is reflection of you..
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I break out laughing. I frown.
I yell and scream. Sometimes,
if one jokes and giggles,
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
My heart is so small
it's almost invisible.
How can You place
such big sorrows in it...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don't go back to sleep!
You must ask for what...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
There is a place born of silence
A place where the whispers of the heart arise.
There is a...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Beauty surrounds us.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast!
For when you do, you will see thousands of ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come 'ro...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve k...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest wher...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trus...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you ast...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the ros...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.”

“In prayer all are equal.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Günleri say, senedini say, büyüklerini say, ama yerinde sayma.
Emek ver, kulak ver, bilgi ve...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have tw...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that o...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
When soul rises
Into lips
You feel the kiss
You have wanted
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Whenever we manage to love without expectations,
calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I see my beauty in you.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
I am yours.
Don't give myself back to me.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a sheph...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Did I Not Say To You

Did I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
My lips got lost on the way to the kiss -
that's how drunk I
was.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Looking for Your Face

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
نحن من أولئك الذين يفرحون دون ذهب أو ثروات
نحن هادئو...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
إن كان حزني من أجلك يميتني كل لحظة، لا تميتني أنت.
ات�...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Two there are, who are never satisfied; The lover of the world and the lover of Knowledge.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can f...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
A wealth you cannot imagine
flows through you.
Do not consider what strangers say.
Be...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
True beauty is a ray
That springs from the sacred depths of the soul,
and illuminates the ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
İstediğin bir şey olmuyorsa ya daha iyisi olacağı için ya da gerçekten de olmaması gerektiğ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as a plant and rose to animal,
I died as an...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Your body is away from me,
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warm...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
It would be as if a king sent you to a village on a specific mission. If you went and performed a hu...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.
Unbound by name and fame, he ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no wal...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.
I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian no...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
wasn't it first merely a thought a...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.

The hope...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had th...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI - مولوی
I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the co...
RUMI
I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
RUMI
Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
RUMI
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
RUMI
We are born of love; Love is our mother.
RUMI
Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.
RUMI
The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to ...
RUMI
You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you...
RUMI
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grow...
RUMI
This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning...
RUMI
When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot i...
RUMI
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come...
RUMI
Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the l...
RUMI
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, a...
RUMI
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
RUMI
What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastri...
RUMI
Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
RUMI
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badl...
RUMI
Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
RUMI
The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lo...
RUMI
The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and ...
RUMI
I spent millons of years in the world
of inorganic things
as a star, as a rock...
Then I di...
RUMI
I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was ...
RUMI
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your ple...
RUMI
The dust of many crumbled cities settles over us like a forgetful doze, but we are older than those ...
RUMI
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
RUMI
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much h...
RUMI
Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself....
RUMI
Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
RUMI
Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence ...
RUMI
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every ...
RUMI
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
RUMI
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can...
RUMI
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my ...
RUMI
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy...
RUMI
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
RUMI
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. L...
RUMI
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
RUMI
May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
RUMI
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through...
RUMI
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
RUMI
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left ...
RUMI
The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
RUMI
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
RUMI
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
RUMI