Rumi (1207–1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran.
Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, as well as Muslims of the Indian subcontinent have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries.
His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and transposed into various formats. Rumi has been described as the "most popular poet" and the "best selling poet" in the United States.
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Short Rumi Quotes
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
What you seek is seeking you.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.
You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Beauty surrounds us.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
There are lovers content with longing. I'm not one of them.
Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.
The lion is most handsome when looking for food.
Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.
Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
Let silence take you to the core of life.
I am yours. Don't give myself back to me.
Give your weakness to one who helps.
The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.
Let yourself become living poetry.
Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.
Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.
Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty.
Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.
Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.
Dance until you shatter yourself.
To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.
If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.
Patience is the key to joy.
Be an empty page, untouched by words.
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.
We are born of love; Love is our mother.
We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.
In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.
If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.
Life is balance of holding on and letting go.
Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
Rumi Famous Quotes and Sayings
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.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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.
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
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.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
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.
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.
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
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.
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison. When the door is so wide open?
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.
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
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?
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.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
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.
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.
Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.
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.
People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves.
But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.
A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.
When you go through a hard period, when everything seems to oppose you, … When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!
Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
The breezes at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep!
Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look", He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world".
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.
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.
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.
I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.
You wander from room to room. Hunting for the diamond necklace. That is already around your neck!
Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.
In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
I am your moon and your moonlight too. I am your flower garden and your water too. I have come all this way, eager for you. Without shoes or shawl. I want you to laugh. To kill all your worries. To love you. To nourish you.
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe.
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.
Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.
Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.
Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.
Within tears, find hidden laughter. Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.
When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.
You are a volume in the divine book. A mirror to the power that created the universe. Whatever you want, ask it of yourself. Whatever you’re looking for can only be found. Inside of you.
They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?
Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.
All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
I will be waiting here... For your silence to break, for your soul to shake, for your love to wake!
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.
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.
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.
Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.
Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!
She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
If the foot of the trees were not tied to the earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.
When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Live life as if everything is rigged in your favour.
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.
I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.
Be full of sorrow, that you may become a hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. It's not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.
The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.
This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.
You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.
The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined.
Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.
Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.
Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
It's your road, and yours alone. others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.
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