Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi on Love

"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."

"Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation."

"I choose to love you in silence…For in silence I find no rejection,I choose to love you in loneliness…For in loneliness no one owns you but me,I choose to adore you from a distance…For distance will shield me from pain,I choose to kiss you in the wind…For the wind is gentler than my lips,I choose to hold you in my dreams…For in my dreams, you have no end."

"When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them."

"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."

"That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful."

"I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star."

"Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!"

"In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat."

"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."

"Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you."

"Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love."

"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"

"When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it."

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

"I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo nourish you."

"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart."

"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."

"I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it."

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

"The Foundation of Universal Lovers of Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi"

"Everyday my heart falls deeper in the pain of your sorrow."

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

"I am yours.Don't give myself back to me."

"Love is the path and road of our Prophet"

"Love is best when mixed with anguish."

"The fire of Love cooks me"

"I have endowed everyone with a temperament of his own, given everyone an idiom of his own; so that what is praise for him is blame for thee, what is honey for him is poison for thee, what is light for him is fire for thee, what is rose for him is thorn for thee, what is good for him is evil for thee, what is beautiful for him is ugly for thee. In the people of Hindustan the idiom of Hindustan is praiseworthy; in the people of Sind, the idiom of Sind is praiseworthy. I do not see the outward and the speech; I see the inward and the state . For the heart is the substance and speech an accident. So, the accident is subservient, the substance is the object. The religion of love stands apart from all religions. For lovers the religion and creed is God."