BEST QUOTES OF RUMI

Rumi, was a Persian poet, scholar, and Sufi mystic of the 13th century. He has had a profound impact on literature and spirituality. Below are the best quotes from Rumi. Which inspires many in various scenarios of life.

BEST QUOTES OF RUMI

• “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
• “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
• “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
• “What you seek is seeking you.”
• “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
• “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
• “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
• “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
• “Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”
• “The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.”
• “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.”

• “Two there are who are never satisfied — the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
• “Do not be content with the stories that have gone before you. Go forth and create your own story.”
• “Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.”
• “Let the beauty we love be what we do.”
• “Patience is the key to joy.”
• “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.”
• “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
• “Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being.”
• “I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.”
• “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought!”
• “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.”
• “Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.”

Most Inspiring Quotes of Rumi

• “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
• “You are not meant to be loved in parts, you are meant to be loved as a whole.”
• “The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.”
• “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
• “In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.”

“What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.”

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• “Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.”
• “When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.”
• “I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
• “A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.”
• “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”
• “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.”
• “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”
• “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
• “The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”

“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”

“I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”

“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”

“The moment you accept the troubles you have been given, the door will open.”

“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.”

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

“This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.”

“The soul is here for its own joy.”

“Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”

“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.”

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, 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.”

“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

“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.”

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• “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
• “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
• “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
• “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth, without complicated explanation, so everyone will understand the passage, We have opened you.”
• “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”
• “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.”
• “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
• “Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.”
• “The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.”
• “The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open.”
• “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
• “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
• “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
• “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal.”
• “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
• “Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”
• “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
• “This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.”

• “The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.”
• “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”
• “You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while.”
• “In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances.”
• “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
• “There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”
• “The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.”
• “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”
• “The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”
• “The heart is a thousand-stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.”

These quotes capture the essence of Rumi’s spiritual and mystical view on love and unity, which can be applied to the context of marriage and deep, soulful connections.

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