Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi quotes

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.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things
going badly. Let the lover be.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise
God for those two insomnias. And the difference between them.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

What you seek is seeking you.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi