Rumi Love Quotations

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

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.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

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.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.

My longing for you keeps me in this moment My passion gives me courage

Love is a river. Drink from it.

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.

Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now.

There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.

Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.

A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.

If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted.

Everything has to do with loving and not loving.

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.

If destiny comes to help you, Love will come to meet you. A life without love isn't a life

It is Love and the Lover that live eternally - Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.

I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover

Come on sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me

Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you.

Oh god Let all lovers be content Give them happy endings Let their lives be celebrations Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.

At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love: We are going to sky, who wants to come with us? We have gone to Heaven, we have been the friends of the angels, And now we will go back there, for there is our country.

May this marriage be blessed.May this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey.May this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine.May this marriage be fruitful like a date tree.May this marriage be full of laughter and everyday a paradise.May this marriage be a seal of compassion for here and hereafter.May this marriage be as welcome as the full moon in the night sky.Listen lovers, now you go on, as I become silent and kiss this blessed night.

Love's nationality is separate from all other religions, The lover's religion and nationality is the Beloved (God). The lover's cause is separate from all other causes Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.

To Love is to reach God.

A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.

Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.

Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving.

Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.

When you seek Love with all your Heart, you shall find its echoes in the universe.

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. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.

Passion makes the old medicine new: Passion lops off the bough of weariness. Passion is the elixir that renews: how can there be weariness when passion is present? Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue: seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea. Intellectuals plan their repose; lovers are ashamed to rest. The lover is always alone. even surrounded by people; like water and oil, he remains apart. The man who goes to the trouble of giving advice to a lover get nothing. He's mocked by passion. Love is like musk. It attracts attention. Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.

A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I've disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I've forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I've become a scholar. I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love and being a Lover. The way of our prophets is the way of Truth. If you want to live, die in Love; die in Love if you want to remain alive.

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless. Although I may try to describe love, when I experience it, I am speechless. Although I may try to write about love, I am rendered helpless. My pen breaks, and the paper slips away at the ineffable place where lover loving and loved are one. Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder.

The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which have made men and women weepfor centuries, even those have changed now.What used to be pain is a lovely benchwhere we can rest under the roses.A left hand has become a right.A dark wall, a window.A cushion in a shoe heel,the leader of the community!Now silence. What we sayis poison to someand nourishing to others.What we say is a ripe fig,but not every bird that flieseats figs.

Love's creed is separate from all religions.

Love is the sea where intellect drowns.

The Silk Worm I stood before a silk worm one day. And that night my heart said to me, "I can do things like that, I can spin skies, I can be woven into love that can bring warmth to people; I can be soft against a crying face, I can be wings that lift, and I can travel on my thousand feet throughout the earth, my sacs filled with the sacred." And I replied to my heart, "Dear, can you really do all those things?" And it just nodded "Yes" in silence. So we began and will never cease.

Nearness to God is common to us all, Because we're all created and sustained by God, But only the authentically noble Possess and live that nearness That's a constant upswelling passion of love.

Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.

There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts.

Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work.

There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? You feel the separation from the Beloved. Invite Him to fill you up, embrace the fire.

For me to praise is interrupting praise.

Every bird will follow it's specie.

You moan, "She left me." "He left me," Twenty more will come.

I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still!

You live in my heart where no one sees you but I do. That vision becomes this art.

I look into your eyes & see the universe not yet born.

Those loves which are for the sake of a colour are not love. In the end they are a disgrace.

Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship.

Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.

The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful.

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.

Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.

Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.

Through love the devil becomes an angel. Through love stones become soft as butter. Through love grief is like delight. Through love demons become the servants of God.

If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But if your heart is already awakened, Sleep peacefully, sleep in the arms of Love

Reality is blocked by form and image.

My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo, its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompases every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.

Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love, if you are too careful, LOVE will not find you.

What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart

Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Believe in love's infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love is life

Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.