Rumi Fall Quotations

Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.

If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.

Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting.

Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall to earth and grow green all over the world.

Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.

I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun . . . I am the mist of morning, the breath of evening . . . . I am the spark in the stone, the gleam of gold in the metal . . . . The rose and the nightingale drunk with its fragrance. I am the chain of being, the circle of the spheres, The scale of creation, the rise and the fall. I am what is and is not . . . I am the soul in all.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home.

God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded by pride that he himself has conceived good ideas or done good deeds. If everything were as it seemed, the Prophet would not have cried out with such illuminated and illuminating perspicacity, Show me things as they are! You make things appear beautiful when in reality they are ugly; You make things appear ugly when in reality they are beautiful. Show us therefore each thing as it is lest we fall into a snare and be ever errant.

Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.

Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can't see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path...Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.

There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in love.

The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing.

Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors.

Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

Let your throat-song be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length suppliant, at the door.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.

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.

Why, when God's world is so big, did you fall asleep in a prison, of all places?

Wherever water flows, life flourishes: wherever tears fall, Divine mercy is shown.