Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
16 quotations, from Rumi, Daniel Ladinsky and others, each checked for who actually said it.
English translations and renderings of Sufi and mystical lines. Where a line was written by a modern translator rather than the medieval poet it is sold under, the translator is named.
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind.
I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
The words you speak become the house you live in.
Even after all this time the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of the soul looking in, there is one sight and one knowing.
My heart has become capable of every form: it is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian monks, and a temple for idols, and the pilgrim's Kaaba.
If thou hast not seen the devil, look at thine own self.
Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given to you.
Whatever purifies you is the right path; I will not try to define it.
A man is hidden under his tongue.
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Get the appVerses and attributions checked against the poets' published collections; lines that circulate online under famous names but are not theirs have been left out. Translations prepared and checked by MyByteNest. Updated 1 October 2026. Spot an error? Tell us.