277 Quotes About Rumi

Be quiet now and wait.It may be that the ocean one,the one we desire so to move into and become,desires us out here on land a little longer,going our sundry roads to the shore.

Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

سبحان الله! محيط يمشي خلف بحيرة"قول ابن عربي حول جلال الدين الرومي حين رآه في طفولته ماشياً خلف والده

I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the compass is static. It is fixed and rooted in a certain spot. Meanwhile, the other leg draws a huge wide circle around the first one, constantly moving. Just like that, one part of my writing is based in Istanbul. It has strong local roots. Yet at the same time the other part travels the whole wide world, feeling connected to several cities, cultures, and peoples.

Shams was the wind that would blow the scholar's turban off from Rumi's head, and turn a quiet academic into an enthusiastic lover of God.

مجنون را می گفتند که: از لیلی خوبترانند، بر تو بیاریم؟ او می گفت که: آخر من لیلی را به صورت دوست نمی دارم، لیلی صورت نیست. لیلی به دست من همچون جامی است، من از آن شراب می نوشم. من عاشق شرابم و شما را نظر بر قدح است. از شراب آگاه نیستید.(مولانا -فیه ما فیه)

Öldüğümüzde mezarımızı toprakta değil, insanların kalbinde arayın.

God writes spiritual misteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery.

Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey. . . . – Rumi (p. 123)