Rumi Quotes - Page 70

• We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now!

  Rumi

  Crazy, Love Poetry, Given

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• I open and fill with
  LOVE and what is not
  LOVE ... evaporates!

  Rumi

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• If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.

  Rumi

  Eye, Hands, Guides

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• We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We started sober: are love's startled drunkards. You hide me in your cloak of nothingness Reflect my ghost in your glass of being I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream Where your eternity briefly trembles.

  Rumi

  Dream, Glasses, Sea

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• For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.

  Rumi

  Pain, Betrayal, Grief

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• I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool.

  Rumi

  Teacher, Children, Fool

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• War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.

  Rumi

  Children, War, Fighting

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• Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk of anything else?

  Rumi

  Mirrors, Stories, Body

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• There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.

  Rumi

  Love, Religious, Kissing

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• Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.

  Rumi

  Trade, Cleverness, Bewilderment

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• May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Blessed, May

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• Every bird will follow it's specie.

  Rumi

  Love, Bird

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• Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Bird, Nests

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• My souls sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this?

  Rumi

  Silence, Soul, Asks

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• God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Snakes

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.51, Lulu.com

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• I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

  Rumi

  Mirrors, Looks, Spices

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.186, Penguin UK

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• Each moment from all sides rushes to us the call to love. We are running to contemplate its vast green field. Do you want to come with us?

  Rumi

  Running, Green Fields, Want

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• The moon has become a dancer
  at this festival of LOVE.

  Rumi

  Moon, Dancer, Festivals

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The PrIVILeged Lovers”

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• I should be suspicious of what I want.

  Rumi

  Want, Should, Suspicious

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• They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual? They wonder about Solomon and all his wives. In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul and you are that. But we have ways within each other that will never be said by anyone.

  Rumi

  Love, Spiritual, Wife

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• We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.

  Rumi

  Mirrors, Faces, Wells

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?

  Rumi

  Love Is, Sufi

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• Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!

  Rumi

  Wine, Intelligent, Men

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• For me to praise is interrupting praise.

  Rumi

  Love, Praise, Interrupting

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• I have no name for what circles so perfectly.

  Rumi

  Circles, Names

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