Rumi Quotes

 

“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

“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.” ― Rumi

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ― Rumi

“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.” ― Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” ― Rumi

“What you seek is seeking you.” ― Rumi

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” ― Rumi

“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.” ― Rumi

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” ― Rumi

“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.” ― Rumi

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

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.” ― Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.” ― Rumi

“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.” ― Rumi

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.” ― Rumi

“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” ― Rumi

“I want to see you.

Know your voice.

Recognize you when you
first come 'round the corner.

Sense your scent when I come
into a room you've just left.

Know the lift of your heel,
the glide of your foot.

Become familiar with the way
you purse your lips
then let them part,
just the slightest bit,
when I lean in to your space
and kiss you.

I want to know the joy
of how you whisper
"more” ― Rumi

“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” ― Rumi, The Essential 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

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.” ― Rumi

“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.” ― 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

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.” ― Rumi

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

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.” ― Rumi

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” ― Rumi

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” ― Rumi

“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” ― Rumi

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” ― Rumi

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