33 Quotes by Jalaluddin Rumi

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open,you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contractingand expanding. The two as beautifully balanced and coordinatedas birdwings.

Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

All people, all possible permutations of good, evil, thought, passion. The lamps are different, But the Light is the same.

You have read in the text where They love himblends with He loves them.Those joining lovesare both qualities of God. Fear is not.What characteristics do God and human beingshave in common? What is the connection betweenwhat lives in time and what lives in eternity?If I kept talking about love,a hundred new combinings would happen,and still I would not say the mystery.

Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World.

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.