Rumi Quotes

Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi was a 13th century poet and philosopher who influenced both eastern and western poetry. His poetry is divided into categories: The Quatrains and Odes of the Divan, The Six Books the Masnavi, The Discourses, The Letters, and The Six Sermons. Rumi's major poetic work is Matnawiye Ma'nawi, a six-volume poem, considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest works of mystical poetry ever written. Rumi's prose works included Fihi Ma Fihi, Majalese Sab'a and Maktubat. His prose work largely contains sermons and lectures given by Rumi to his disciples and family members.

Rumi was born in 1207 in what is today the country of Afghanistan. During his lifetime Rumi completed more than 60,000 works of poetry before his death in 1273. A lot of Rumi's work, and the subject of many of the Rumi quotes used in modern day, are based around the concepts of man and nature uniting with the divine. The question of where souls have been and where they are going is frequently addressed by Rumi. This poet is often described as a "mystic" and though he was a Muslim Qu'ran scholar, Rumi's words have appealed throughout history to people of many different religions.http://www.poetseers.org/the_poetseers/rumi/

• "Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun."

• "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

• "I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it."

• "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."

• "Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river."

• "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,

• there is a field. I will meet you there."http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jalal_al-Din_Muhammad_Rumi

• "It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home."

• "Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness."

• "The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you; Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want; Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep."

• "This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/rumi.html

• “The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”

• “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”

• “Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”

• “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust”

• “I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”

• “Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”http://thinkexist.com/quotes/jalal_ad-din_rumi/

• “Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.”

• “Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.”

• “God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.”

• “If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”

• “O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.”

• “Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.”http://www.thinkarete.com/quotes/by_teacher/mevlana_rumi/

• "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against "

• "Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl."

• "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."http://www.ascensiongateway.com/quotes/rumi/index.htm