97 Insightful Rumi Quotes That Will Continue To Guide Generations
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.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing 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.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
What you seek is seeking you.
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.
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
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.
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
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.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
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?
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
