Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God’s lover, yet you worry what people are saying.

Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.

You think of yourselfas a citizen of the universe.You think you belong to this world of dust and matter.Out of this dustyou have created a personal image,and have forgottenabout the essence of your true origin

Es el orfebre quien puede evaluar el oro.

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that...

Love was not the point and pity was a poor man’s pride.

When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.

We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences.

A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years’ sincere, obedient dedication.

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it’s been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his...

Un instante en presencia de los Amigos (Sufis) es mejor que cien años de dedicación sincera y obediente

I was deadI came aliveI was tearsI became laughterAll because of lovewhen it arrivedmy temporal lifefrom then onchanged to eternalLove said to meyou are notcrazy enoughyou don’tfit this houseI went andbecame crazycrazy enoughto be in...

….life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

The world’s flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:eat less of it, for it is full of fire.Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

Sufism is therefore not ‘Do as I say and not as I do’, or even ‘Do as I do’, but ‘Experience it and you will know’.

Do not seek water, get thirst.

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

,Por qué hice tal y cual cosa?” está muy bien. Pero qué hay con “,De qué otra forma podría haberlo hecho?”.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

…anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

Hey Rumi, you said: What you seek is seeking you.I submit.For I believe that the seeker knows what it seeks.It will not find what it does not seek even if she is found.For I believe,...

Aunque el oro falso haga feliz a un hombre, en la casa de la moneda será identificado.

Woman is the light of God.

…the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community was to open the heart, explore the mystery of union,to fiercely search for and try to say the truth,and to celebrate the glory and difficulty in being...

Cuando te des cuenta de la diferencia entre el contenedor y el contenido, tendrás conocimiento.

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,no light and no land anywhere,cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface, yet I’m already underand living within the ocean.

The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.

Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.

In one moment, we are now forever,in one moment…

Los secretos Sufis son percibidos, no entendidos a través de palabras.

Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone.

I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.

Experiméntalo y conocerás”.

Notice how each particle moves.Notice how everyone has just arrived here from a journey.Notice how each wants a different food.Notice how the stars vanish as the sun comes up, and how all streams stream toward...

…lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.

Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun sets.The moon sets.But they are not gone.~Rumi

We both disliked rude rickshwalas, shepu bhaji in any form, group photographs at weddings, lizards, tea that has gone cold, the habit of taking newspaper to the toilet, kissing a boy who’d just smoked a...

Epitafio de Jalaludin RumiCuando estemos muertos, no busques nuestra tumba en la tierra, mas encuéntrala en el corazón de los hombres.

Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty.

The only mistake you have made is asking the wrong question. It isn’t about what you did wrong. It’s what you have not yet done.

Es axiomático que el intento de hacerse sufi para lograr ventajas personales, o lo que suele entenderse por las mismas, no tendrá éxito.

Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.

If you can love all who’ve betrayed you… you can taste sweetness in everything.

I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.

And I was your moon because I shined brighter than any other star in your universe and you were my darkness. Without you I could not see the depth of my light and with you...

Donde haya una cosa verdadera o útil, con seguridad habrá una falsificación.

I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns.