Rumi Quotes

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

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

No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping.

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

You’ve seen my descent, now watch my rising.

What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.

This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.