Neither masters nor the owners

"On the path of love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the master painter."
― Rumi

Related Rumi Quotes on Love

  • Lovers do not finally meet somewhere

    Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

  • Seek and find the Barriers

    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

    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. What you seek is seeking you.

  • I learn how to love

    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.