Love Quotes of Jalal al-Din al-Rumi (4)

Love so needs to love,

that it will endure almost anything,

even abuse,

just to flicker for a moment.

Rumi

I died as a mineral and became a plant,

I died as plant and rose to animal,

I died as animal and I was Man.

Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Rumi

Are you searching for the river of your soul?

Then come out of your prison.

Leave the stream

and join the river

that flows into the ocean.

Rumi

Love is reckless; not reason.

Reason seeks a profit.

Having died of self-interest,

Love risks everything and asks for nothing.

Rumi

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.

Rumi

My place is the Placeless, my trace is Traceless,

'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved

Rumi

You were born with potential

You were born with goodness and trust

You were born with ideals and dreams

You were born with greatness

You were born with wings

You are not meant for crawling, so don't.

You have wings

Learn to use them, and fly.

Rumi

I long to escape the prison of my ego

and lose myself in you.

Rumi

A moment of happiness,

you and I sitting on the verandah,

apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.

We feel the flowing water of life here,

you and I, with the garden's beauty

and the birds singing.

Rumi

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.

Rumi

From the clear center of my heart

there are no edges to my loving you

I've heard it said there's a window that opens

from one mind to another

but if there were no wall,

what need of installing a window?

Rumi

If the wind had taken me to you,

I would have held tight to the skirts of the wind.

I miss you so much that I would fly to you faster than a bird;

But how can a bird with a clipped wing fly?

Rumi

There comes a holy

and transparent time

when every touch

of beauty

opens the heart

to tears.

This is the time

the Beloved of heaven

is brought tenderly on earth.

This is the time

of the opening

of the Rose.

Rumi

Remember any night of all of our nights

but don't remember things I've said.

Rumi

What was whispered to the rose

To break it open

Last night

Was whispered to my heart.

Rumi

Stop learning.

Start knowing.

The rose opens

And opens

And when it falls

Falls outward.

Rumi

Silence

You are the diamond in me

the Jewel of my real wealth!

From your soft earth

grow thousands

of rose gardens

whose perfumes

drown me

in my heart.

Rumi

I was dead

I came alive

I was tears

I became laughter

all because of love.

Rumi

love said

you are a candle

attracting everyone

gathering every one

around you.

Rumi

love said

you already have

your own wings

I will not give you

more feathers.

Rumi

My heart is burning with love

All can see this flame

My heart is pulsing with passion

like waves on an ocean.

Rumi

I’m at home wherever I am

And in the room of lovers

I can see with closed eyes

the beauty that dances.

Rumi

Behind the veils

intoxicated with love

I too dance the rhythm

of this moving world

I have lost my senses

in my world of lovers.

Rumi

Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.

The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.

Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,

The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

Rumi

Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door.

She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side.

Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair

My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.

Rumi

When I am with you, we stay up all night,

When you're not here, I can't get to sleep.

Praise God for these two insomnias!

And the difference between them.

Rumi

I have phrases and whole pages memorized,

but nothing can be told of love.

You must wait until you and I

are living together.

In the conversation we'll have

then...be patient...then.

Rumi

When the sweet glance of my true love caught my eyes,

Like alchemy, it transformed my copper-like soul.

I searched for Him with a thousand hands,

He stretched out His arms and clutched my feet.#

Rumi

There is a smile and a gentleness

inside. When I learned the name

and address of that, I went to where

you sell perfume. I begged you not

to trouble me so with longing. Come

out and play! Flirt more naturally.

Teach me how to kiss. On the ground

a spread blanket, flame that's caught

and burning well, cumin seeds browning,

I am inside all of this with my soul.

Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy,

absentminded. Someone sober

will worry about things going badly.

Let the lover be.

Rumi

When your chest is free of your limiting ego,

Then you will see the ageless Beloved.

You can not see yourself without a mirror;

Look at the Beloved, He is the brightest mirror.

Rumi

We are the mirror as well as the face in it.

We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity.

We are pain and what cures pain both.

We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.

Rumi

I want to hold you close like a lute so we can cry out with loving.

You would rather throw stones at a mirror?

I am your mirror, and here are the stones.

Rumi

You bewilder us with your grace,

all evils transformed into goodness.

You are the master alchemist.

You light the fire of love in Earth and Sky,

in heart and soul of every being.

Through your loving, 

existence and non-existence merge.

All opposites unite. 

All that is profane becomes sacred again.

Rumi

When it's cold and raining,

you are more beautiful.

And the snow brings me

even closer to your lips.

The inner secret, that which was never born,

you are that freshness, and I am with you now.

I can't explain the goings,

or the comings. You enter suddenly,

and I am nowhere again.

Inside the majesty.

Rumi

When you find yourself with the Beloved, embracing for one breath,

In that moment you will find your true destiny.

Alas, don't spoil this precious moment

Moments like this are very, very rare.

Rumi

And just the moment

when you are all confused

leaps forth a voice

hold me close

I'm love and

I'm always yours.

Rumi