Top 500 Rumi Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Fling me across the fabric of time and the seas of space. Make me nothing and from nothing-everything.”

— Rumi

402. “Though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.”

— Rumi

403. “Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.”

— Rumi

404. “Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.”

— Rumi

405. “A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain.”

— Rumi

406. “If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart.”

— Rumi

407. “Once we were particles of Light, now we are Beings of Light, radiating Love.”

— Rumi

408. “If only you knew what bliss I find in being nothing.”

— Rumi

409. “Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.”

— Rumi

410. “Rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky.”

— Rumi

411. “If you look too closely at the form, you miss the Essence.”

— Rumi

412. “Embark on the journey of LOVE. It takes you from yourself to yourself.”

— Rumi

413. “The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.”

— Rumi

414. “Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.”

— Rumi

415. “I am merely a guest, born in this world to know the secrets that lie beyond it.”

— Rumi

416. “Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.”

— Rumi

417. “Beyond ideas, there’s a field. Will you meet me there?”

— Rumi

418. “What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.”

— Rumi

419. “Lamps are different, but light is the same.”

— Rumi

420. “All we really want is love’s confusing joy.”

— Rumi

421. “Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God.”

— Rumi

422. “A strange passion is moving in my head My heart has become a bird which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so that the one I love is Everywhere?”

— Rumi

423. “Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.”

— Rumi

424. “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

425. “Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.”

— Rumi

426. “To a frog that’s never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he’s giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. “I can’t explain where I live, but someday I’ll take you there.””

— Rumi

427. “They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?”

— Rumi

428. “The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.”

— Rumi

429. “In the sea of love, I melt like salt Faith, Doubt – they both dissolve. A star is opening in my heart. The worlds turn in it.”

— Rumi

430. “Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.”

— Rumi

431. “The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.”

— Rumi

432. “Be with those who help your being. Don’t sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.”

— Rumi

433. “My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage.”

— Rumi

434. “I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within. Look at me not with outward eye but with inward vision of the heart; Follow me there and see how unencumbered we become.”

— Rumi

435. “Love calls – everywhere and always. We’re sky bound. Are you coming?”

— Rumi

436. “I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world.”

— Rumi

437. “You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You’re the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.”

— Rumi

438. “Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.”

— Rumi

439. “To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life.”

— Rumi

440. “A pearl goes up for auction. No one has enough, so the pearl buys itself.”

— Rumi

441. “You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you.”

— Rumi

442. “But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.”

— Rumi

443. “People want you to be happy. Don’t keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.”

— Rumi

444. “Remember God so much that you are forgotten.”

— Rumi

445. “Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”

— Rumi

446. “If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don’t abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.”

— Rumi

447. “All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.”

— Rumi

448. “The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.”

— Rumi

449. “The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than the stars with more clarity than the polished mirror of your heart.”

— Rumi

450. “I don’t know why; when I look at you, I see myself.”

— Rumi