Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet, an Islamic dervish, and a Sufi mystic. He is regarded as one of the greatest spiritual masters and poetical intellects. His influence transcends every border. Thought-provoking Rumi quotes will expand your vision and you will see the deeper connections between yourself and the universe.
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Best Rumi Quotes
Let silence take you to the core of life. 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
The whole universe is contained within a single human being you. Rumi
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. Rumi
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love. Rumi
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Rumi
Love is the bridge between you and everything. Rumi
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi
Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again. Rumi
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi
Travel brings power and love back into your life. 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
Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk. Rumi
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? 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
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. Rumi
When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe. Rumi
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? Rumi
If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless. Rumi
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Rumi
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love. Rumi
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. Rumi
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. Rumi
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. Mawlana Jalal al Din Rumi
Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds. Rumi
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Rumi
We are born of love; Love is our mother. 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
Respond to every call that excites your spirit. Rumi
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. Rumi Jalalud Din
This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are. Rumi
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. Mawlana Jalal al Din Rumi
The very center of your heart is where life begins the most beautiful place on earth. Rumi
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. Rumi
When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray. Rumi
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. Rumi
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Rumi
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. Mawlana Jalal al Din Rumi
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. Rumi
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love. Rumi
Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor. 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
Only from the heart can you touch the sky. Rumi
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. Rumi
The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night. Rumi
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. Rumi
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. 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. Mawlana Jalal al Din Rumi
Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one. Rumi
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. Rumi
Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden. Rumi
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. Rumi
Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things. Rumi
A thousand half loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home. Rumi
If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road. Rumi
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. Rumi
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. 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. Jelaluddin Rumi
Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love. 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
Why ever talk of miracles when you are destined to become infinite love. Rumi
Two there are who are never satisfied the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge. Rumi Jalalud Din
Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life? Rumi
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love. Rumi
Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love. Rumi
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. Rumi
The rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorns. Rumi
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. Rumi
Shine like the whole universe is yours. Rumi
Either give me more wine or leave me alone. Rumi
The lion is most handsome when looking for food. Rumi
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. Rumi
Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots. Rumi
I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways. Rumi
Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty. Rumi
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Rumi
Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies. Rumi
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. Rumi
What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs. Rumi
A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice. Rumi
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. Rumi
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. Rumi
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. Rumi
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. Rumi
The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground. Rumi
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. Jalal ad Din Rumi
Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love. Rumi
You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Rumi
Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment. Rumi
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. Rumi
The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone. Rumi
Only from the heart can you touch the sky. Mawlana Jalal al Din Rumi
Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it. 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
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn’t it first merely a thought and a quest? Rumi
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. Jelaluddin Rumi
In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal. Rumi
In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. Rumi
Be kind to yourself, dear to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us. Rumi
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. Rumi
Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others. Rumi
You think because you understand one you must also understand two, because one and one make two. But you must also understand and. Mawlana Jalal al Din Rumi
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. Rumi
The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night. Rumi
The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are. Rumi
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. Rumi
The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Rumi
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. Mawlana Jalal al Din Rumi
It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. Rumi
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. Rumi
Thankfulness brings you to the place where the beloved lives. Rumi
Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you. Rumi Jalalud Din
That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility. Rumi
When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth. Rumi
A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart house, that bowl of silence. Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. Rumi
What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout. Rumi
They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls? Mawlana Jalal al Din Rumi
Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you? Rumi
Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave ’til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know. Rumi
If light is in your heart, you will find your way home. Rumi
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