Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.
Rumi
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Rumi
Born: 1207
Born: September 30
Islamic Scholar
Literary
Mystic
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
Umm Al-Belaad
Jalālauddīna Rūmī
Ǧalāladdīn Rūmī
Dzhalaliddin Rumi
Jalaluʼddin Rumi
Gialâl ad-Dîn Rûmî
Jalálu-ʼd-ʼDín Muhammad i Rúmí
Dzhaloluddin Rumi
Celâleddin Rûmî
Ŷalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
Jalāluddīn Balkhī Rumī
Jolalud-Din Rumi
Zhaloliddin Rumiĭ
Jalaladdin Rumi
Dschelal-Eddin Rumi
Jalāluddīn Muḥammad Balkhī Rūmī
Rum
Jalāl ad-Dīn ar-Rūmī
Dschalaludd
People
Wings
Tearing
Fantasy
Drops
Illusion
Lame
Sake
Wing
Enjoy
Enjoying
Spiritual
Abandoned
Become
Lust
Really
Fancy
Indulged
More quotes by Rumi
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.
Rumi
On this path let the heart be your guide.
Rumi
It is Love that gives joy to happiness.
Rumi
The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.
Rumi
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
Rumi
The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.
Rumi
This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.
Rumi
You moan, She left me. He left me, Twenty more will come.
Rumi
Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.
Rumi
We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust... The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.
Rumi
Whatever you know, or don’t - only Love is real.
Rumi
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
Rumi
If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.
Rumi
O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.
Rumi
A soul which is not clothed with the inner garment of Love should be ashamed of its existence.
Rumi
Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself cannot discover the world.
Rumi
There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens with wandering talk it closes.
Rumi
The only way to measure a lover is by the grandeur of the beloved.
Rumi
This is how I would die into the love I have for you: As pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight.
Rumi
There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.
Rumi
