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Rumi Quotes

• The wound is the place where the Light enters you. – Rumi
• Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. – Rumi
• Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. – Rumi
• Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. – Rumi
• Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. – Rumi
• Only from the heart can you touch the sky. – Rumi

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. – Rumi

As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears. – Rumi

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. – Rumi

Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds. – Rumi

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. – Rumi

What you seek is seeking you. – Rumi

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad. – Rumi

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes. – Rumi

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again. – Rumi

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen. – Rumi

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. – Rumi

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. – Rumi

Love is the bridge between you and everything. – Rumi

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? – Rumi

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop. – Rumi

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. – Rumi

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. – Rumi

Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds. – Rumi

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind. – Rumi

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. – Rumi

Shine like the universe is yours. – Rumi

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom. – Rumi

Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad. – Rumi

Life is a balance between holding on and letting go. – Rumi

Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open? – Rumi

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire. – Rumi

We are one. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. – Rumi

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. – Rumi

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. – Rumi

You’ve seen my descent. Now watch my rising. – Rumi

If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens. – Rumi

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction. – Rumi

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. – Rumi

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form. – Rumi

My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. – Rumi

I know you’re tired but come, this is the way. – Rumi

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

It’s your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. – Rumi

You have within you more love than you could ever understand. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore. – Rumi

May these vows and this marriage be blessed. – Rumi

And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. – Rumi

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. – Rumi

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love. – Rumi

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life. – Rumi

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. – Rumi

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. Love embraces all. – Rumi

The quieter you become the more you are able to hear. – Rumi

Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul. – Rumi

Reason is powerless in the expression of love. – Rumi

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. – Rumi

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. – Rumi

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. – Rumi

If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home. – Rumi

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. – Rumi

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. – Rumi

My soul is my guide. – Rumi

This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are. – Rumi

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. – Rumi

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being. – Rumi

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. – Rumi

Travel brings power and love back into your life. – Rumi

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. – Rumi

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. – Rumi

I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There’s no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence. – Rumi

Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free. – Rumi

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about. – Rumi

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful. – Rumi

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are. – Rumi

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray. – Rumi

A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke. – Rumi

There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that. – Rumi

Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor. – Rumi

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! – Rumi

Close your eyes. Fall in love. Stay there. – Rumi

I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within. – Rumi

What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved? – Rumi

The lamps are different, but the light is the same. – Rumi

Let silence take you to the core of life. – Rumi

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. – Rumi

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost. – Rumi

Either give me more wine or leave me alone. – Rumi

Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety. – Rumi

Knock. And he’ll open the door. – Rumi

The very center of your heart is where life begins, the most beautiful place on earth. – Rumi

The lion is most handsome when looking for food. – Rumi

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety; If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without any pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret in this for anyone who can grasp it. – Rumi

When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be. – Rumi

I found myself. – Rumi

Open your hands if you want to be held. – Rumi

Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come. – Rumi

Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you. – Rumi

To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes. – Rumi

The whole universe is contained within a single human being; you. – Rumi

Dance until you shatter yourself. – Rumi

Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again. – Rumi

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are. – Rumi

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. – Rumi

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk. – Rumi

When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe. – Rumi

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless. – Rumi

Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others. – Rumi

We are born of love; Love is our mother. – Rumi

What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout. – Rumi

Respond to every call that excites your spirit. – Rumi

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor… Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. – Rumi

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal. – Rumi

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you? – Rumi

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished? – Rumi

Be patient where you sit in the dark, the dawn is coming. – Rumi

Actually, your soul and mine are the same, we appear and disappear in each other. – Rumi

Know that one day, your pain will become your cure. – Rumi

If you find me not within you, you will never find me. For I have been with you, from the beginning of me. – Rumi

The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night. – Rumi

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. – Rumi

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that. – Rumi

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you? – Rumi

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. – Rumi

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul. – Rumi

Let silence be the art you practice. – Rumi

By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself. – Rumi

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. – Rumi

In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. – Rumi

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. – Rumi

You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. – Rumi

Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something, will find it. – Rumi

Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything. – Rumi

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it. – Rumi

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same. – Rumi

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that. – Rumi

Wisdom tells us we are not worthy; love tells us we are. My life flows between the two. – Rumi

My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit. I will meet you there. – Rumi

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. – Rumi

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself. – Rumi

The soul is here for its own joy. – Rumi

Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder. – Rumi

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. – Rumi

Every need brings what’s needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, and the marvelous answer appears. – Rumi

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand. – Rumi

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love. – Rumi

All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep. – Rumi

Inside any deep asking is the answering. – Rumi

Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, leave and let the sea be you. – Rumi

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. – Rumi

There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds. – Rumi

Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together. – Rumi