Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes

• Don't let others lead you.
  They may be blind or, worse, vultures.
  Reach for the rope of God.
  And what is that? Putting aside self-will.
   
• The lover is a king above all kings,
  unafraid of death, not at all interested in a golden crown.
  The dervish has a pearl concealed under his patched cloak.
  Why should he go begging door to door?
   
• You personify God's message.
  You reflect the King's face.
  There is nothing in the universe that you are not
  Everything you want, look for it within yourself--
  you are that.
   
• They are the chosen ones
  who have surrendered.
  Once they were particles of light
  now they are the radiant sun.
   
• They have left behind
  the world of deceitful games.
  They are the privileged lovers
  who create a new world
  with their eyes of fiery passion.
   
• The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
  Don't go back to sleep.
  You must ask for what you really want.
  Don't go back to sleep.
   
• O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now,
  Be all – worlds dissolve into your
  stainless endless radiance,
  Frail living leaves burn with your brighter
  than cold stares –
  Make me your servant, your breath, your core.
   
• There is a candle in the heart of man, waiting to be kindled.
  In separation from the Friend, there is a cut waiting to be stitched.
  O, you who are ignorant of endurance
  and the burning fire of love,
  Love comes of its own free will, it can't be learned in any school.
   
• 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.