Rumi Quotes

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground

Love is the bridge between you and everything

The lamps are different, but the Light is the same

The lion who breaks the enemy’s ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

I am so small I can barely be seen. How can this great love be inside me?

Ignorance is God’s prison. Knowing is God’s palace

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open

Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.

All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!

The moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door will open

The moon stays bright when it does not avoid the night

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears

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

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being

If light is in your heart, you will find your way home

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about. He’s not interested in how things look different in moonlight

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand

When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity

Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

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

Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think

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

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Be like melting snow—wash yourself of yourself

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray

Close both eyes to see with the other eye

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

Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom

Wherever you are is the entry point

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it?

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?

Patience is the key to joy

Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea

Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to Love

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love

You are born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand

Although the road is never ending, take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance. On this path, let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being

Don’t you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Let the water settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being

Look for the answer inside your question

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy

Become the companion of eternity, not the prisoner of time

Travel brings power and love back into your life

Go on! Go on! For the mystic’s journey is made with the feet of the heart

When someone beats a rug with a stick, he is not beating the rug, his aim is to get rid of the dust

People of the world don’t look at themselves, and so they blame one another

Let yourself become living poetry

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form

Let the beauty of the heart be your light, and guide you through the darkness

Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?

What you seek is seeking you.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself

Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth

Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape

Wherever sorrow is, tread there softly, for the broken places have the holiest calling

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure

Wherever the fount of joy is, there’s the face you turn to

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

Let the beauty we love be what we do

Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy

You wander from room to room hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your neck

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you

Let silence take you to the core of life