Rumi Quotes

“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.”
― Rumi
tags: friendship, love, peace, silence, soul, zen


“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi
tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering


“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi


“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Rumi
tags: attraction, rumi, sufi


“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, The Illuminated Rumi
tags: lovers


“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi
tags: bereavement, consolation, grief, loss, reincarnation


“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi
tags: inspirational

“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
tags: dance, inspirational


“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
― Rumi
tags: inspirational


“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.”
― 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
tags: love


“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
― Rumi
tags: joy


“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
tags: courage, creativity, empowerment, independence, inspirational-stories, self-confidence, self-realization


“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
tags: islam, religion, spirituality


“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, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula


“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
― Rumi
tags: inspiration


“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi
tags: change, cleverness, self, wisdom, world


“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi
tags: language, power-of-words, remaining-silent


“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