Rumi's Little Book of Life Quotes

“The saying, "He is with you," means in your search for Him, He is with you,
closer to you than yourself, why seek outside?
Melt like snow, wash yourself from yourself,
and let love grow in your soul, silent as a lily.”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“This body is a guesthouse each morning someone new arrives. Welcome them all for they may be messengers from the invisible. Do not feel burdened by them or they may go back to non-existence. Each time a thought enters your heart treat it as an honored guest, your worth is shown by the thoughts you entertain. Embrace sorrowful thoughts for they sweep the house of your heart clean, scatter the withered leaves, and pull out the twisted roots, preparing the ground for the new shoots of joy.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“You have the habit of walking slowly holding grudges and resentments. Ill-tempered and greedy, small-minded, and with so many attachments how do you expect to attain union? Leave this muddy water and seek clarity. Being so weak, you need all the help and the grace of God to overcome the waves and reach the shore to safety. Take shelter with those who need no shelter. Only on the horse of love can you go beyond the sun and moon to behold the Perfect One.”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“Nothing happens by chance no one goes on a quest without a reason without the pull of the magnet there is no action.”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“Tell me,” my lover asked me tenderly, “how could you live without me?” I said, “without you I am lost like a fish out of water.” He smiled, “This is only your own fault.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“If one sense breaks free from its bonds having a glimpse of the invisible it makes it apparent to all the others. You have seen how when one sheep jumps over the creek the whole flock follows. So drive the flock of your senses to pasture and let them graze on the heavenly flowers in the Garden of Truth.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“As long as you are crawling like a snake on this earth do not hope to swim like fish in the sea of Spirit.”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“The infinite green Garden of Love
has many fruits beyond joy and sorrow.
Love is forever green without spring
without autumn.”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden. What the senses perceive is only a distortion. We all look for something that is not yet in existence,”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“To dance is not to jump to your feet and rise painlessly in the air like dust. To rise above both worlds is to dance in the blood of your pain and give up your life.”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“This body is a guesthouse each morning someone new arrives. Welcome them all for they may be messengers from the invisible. Do not feel burdened by them or they may go back to non-existence. Each time a thought enters your heart treat it as an honored guest, your worth is shown by the thoughts you entertain. Embrace sorrowful thoughts for they sweep the house of your heart clean, scatter the withered leaves, and pull out the twisted roots, preparing the ground for the new shoots of joy. What sorrow takes away from the heart it replaces with something better. Without the fury of thunder and lightning the plants will be scorched by the sun. Be grateful for all you receive, good and bad alike, for it may be a gift from the treasury of Spirit that will bring the fulfillment of your most secret desire.”
― Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi), Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“There are two intellects! One is acquired from teachers and books, from repetition and sciences, granting a sense of superiority yet the effort to sustain it becomes a great burden. It ends just as the water supply coming from outside a house stops once the source has dried up. The other intellect is God's gift. With a fountainhead in the heart of Spirit the water of knowledge bubbling from within can never become stagnant or old. Seek that fountain within yourself!”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“all these phantoms dissolve into thin air once the soul returns to the body. Do not rely on anything but your heart.”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“Questioning cannot unravel the secret of truth nor giving away your wealth and position. Mere words do not exalt the heart pain is the price that the heart has to pay.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“light of Spirit God sends it trials of suffering and pain so the gold of the Spirit may manifest. Surrender,”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“When a true lover appears calamities blaze up. I like a heart that can stir the seven seas fearlessly withstanding the waves. I like a lover with a fiery heart burning even hell to ashes. I like a heart that can wrap the universe around its hand, catching the eternal light hanging it like an icicle. I like a lover with a heart as large as the world who fights like a lion, not only with others but with himself, a lover who shatters the veils of all hearts with the blazing light of Truth.”
― Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“Two forms, two faces, but a single soul You and I.”
― Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“Do not be fooled, my friend,”
― Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi), Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“wish that grief and sorrow would shatter your heart, disloyal lover, and deprive you of everything you value in the world. As no one remembers me but sorrow I bless it a thousand times a day.”
― Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi), Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“Do not grieve over past joys, be sure they will reappear in another form. A child’s joy is in milk and nursing but once weaned, it finds new joy in bread and honey. Joy appears in many different forms it moves from place to place. It may suddenly show in the falling rain or in the rose bed; it comes now as water, now as beauty, or as nourishing bread. But suddenly it may show its face from behind the veil and destroy all idols that prevent you from seeking the divine. In sleep when the soul leaves the body you may dream of yourself as a tall cypress or as a beautiful rose, but be warned, my friend, all these phantoms dissolve into thin air once the soul returns to the body. Do not rely on anything but your heart.”
― Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi), Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“Embrace sorrowful thoughts for they sweep the house of your heart clean, scatter the withered leaves, and pull out the twisted roots, preparing the ground for the new shoots of joy.”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“Any wine will get you high, but be a connoisseur and taste with caution, judge like a king and choose the one not tainted with fear and vain expectations.”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“Love is my religion! Living only in the mind and body is a disgrace for me. Love has swept the dust from my soul and now in the clear sky my spirit moon is shinning. For ages I have been beating the drum of love for you to the tune of, My life depends on my dying.”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“Proud scholar step down from your summit fall in love and become a fool! Become humble like dust walk with everyone good and bad, young and old so one day you may become a king.”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“Your mind can fly to great heights but your parrot-nature keeps pecking on the ground collecting knowledge that burdens the soul. Unlearn everything and embrace madness! Give your profit to the poor, forsake security, live dangerously, insult those who praise you, drink poison, and spill the water of life. Forget reputation, become a disgrace. I was prudent all my life from now on, I embrace madness.”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“once the soul returns”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“Do not be fooled, my friend, this world is not to be trusted. It will intoxicate you with its sweet drink and suddenly desert you and wrap its arms around another lover.”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“I would like to know you.” “Once you know me there will be no more dying.”
― Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“Take shelter with those who need no shelter. Only on the horse of love can you go beyond the sun and moon to behold the Perfect One.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit

“Still in the dark womb how could he imagine the indescribable majesty of this world? In the same way, when the mystics speak of worlds beyond scent and color, the common man deafened by greed and blinded by self-interest cannot grasp their reality.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, Rumi's Little Book of Life: The Garden of the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit