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
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
- Rumi
“What you seek is seeking 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
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
- Rumi
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
- 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
“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
- Rumi
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
- 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
“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
- 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
“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
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
- Rumi
“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
- Rumi
“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
- Rumi
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
- Rumi
“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
- 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
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
- Rumi
“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
- Rumi
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
- Rumi
“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
- Rumi
“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
- Rumi
“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
- 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 grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
- Rumi
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
- Rumi
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
- Rumi
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
- Rumi
“Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?”
- 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
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames”
- 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
“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
“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
- Rumi
“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
- Rumi
“Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.”
- Rumi
“Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.”
- Rumi
“Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
- Rumi
“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.”
- 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
“Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
- Rumi
“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
- Rumi
“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.”
- 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
“Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.”
- 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
“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
“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
- Rumi
“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
- Rumi
“But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.”
- Rumi
“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
- Rumi
“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
- 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
“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.”
- Rumi
“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.”
- Rumi
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