Best Rumi Quotes on Love

Jalalud'din Rumi is the thirteenth-century mystical Persian poet whose poetry encompasses several human emotions, including love. "Western readers have been captivated by Rumi's frequent and masterful use of romantic imagery, which, coupled with the medieval lack of prudery have caused some to regard him chiefly as a love poet," according to Poetseers.org. Rumi's love quotes advocates his belief for the emotion that he considers universal, secular, divine and mystical.

Best Rumi Love Quotes

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

"The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along."

"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."

"Love rests on no foundation.
It is an endless ocean,
with no beginning or end."

"How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump."

"The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke won't find the Secret. "

"A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home."

"Love exalts our earthly bodies to heaven, and makes the very hills to dance with joy."

"Only love itself can explain love and lovers."

"This is a gathering of Lovers.
In this gathering
there is no high, no low,
no smart, no ignorant,
no special assembly,
no grand discourse,
no proper schooling required.
There is no master,
no disciple.
This gathering is more like a drunken party,
full of tricksters, fools,
mad men and mad women.
This is a gathering of Lovers."

"They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?"

"At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door
and open the love-window.
The moon won't use the door,
only the window."

"Be certain in the religion of Love there are no believers or unbelievers. Love embraces all."

"It is love that holds everything together..."

"Although I may try to describe love
when I experience it I am speechless.
Although I may try to write about Love
I am rendered helpless..."

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Source:
Poetseers.org