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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