33 Quotes by Jalaluddin Rumi

All the tears which we creatures shed for Him are not tears as many think but pearls....

I felt I was drowning in my negativity. There was no hope of room for patience and no means of escape, no way to either repent or rebel I felt I could not undo the lock.

If metal can be polishedto a mirrorlike finish,what polishing might the mirrorof the heart require?Between the mirror and the heartis this single difference:the heart conceals secrets,while the mirror does not.

Make it your habit to behold the Light without the glass, so that when the glass is shattered you may not be left blind.

What does not come into man's imagination is called a "gift" because whatever passes through his imagination is in proportion to his aspiration and his worth. However, God's gift is in proportion to God's worth....no matter how much eyes have seen, ears heard, or minds conceived the gift you expect of Me, My gift is above and beyond all that.

The body is not hidden from the soul, nor is the soul hidden from the body, and yet the soul is not for everyone to see.

If you want a customer who will pay in gold, could there be a better customer than God, O my heart? He buys our dirty bag of goods, and in return gives us an inner light lent from His splendor.

Until the mother faces the pain of childbirth, the child cannot be born. The Divine Trust is in the heart, and the heart is pregnant: the counsels of the prophets and the wise are like the midwife.

God's Shams of Tabriz says to the heart's bud, "If your eyes are opened, you'll see the things worth seeing.