Skip to content

When rises the sun and chases the night,
What need have we then of the lamp for a light?
When the friend all beloved appears to the eye,
What want dost thou feel that the post bring him nigh?
But when the rose-time is past, and the rose-bloom gone by,
Then gladly the eye seeks the water of roses to spy.
Is the Master within to thy soul not revealed?
Well then may’st thou turn to the Volume of message unsealed.

— Rumi Attributed Pebbles, Pearls and Gems of the Orient (1882)

Another quote →

More quotes by Rumi

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
Every success depends upon focusing the heart.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

The branch might seem like the fruit's origin:
In fact, the branch exists because of the fruit.

If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything.

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.

All Rumi quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Rumi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.