Quotes by Rumi

"Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun."

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I will meet you there."

"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness."

"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you; Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want; Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep."

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”

“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.”

"If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it."