Rumi Quotes

Awesome Quotes and Sayings From Rumi

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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

 

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.  Don't go back to sleep.

 

Love’s secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, “Here I am!”

~Rumi

 

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

~Rumi

 

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

~Rumi

 

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

~ Rumi

 

What you seek is seeking you.

~ Rumi

 

Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

~Rumi

 

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

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

 

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

~ Rumi

 

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

~Rumi

 

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

~ Rumi

 

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

~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

 

Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you

Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

~Rumi

 

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

~ Rumi

 

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment…

~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

 

Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

~Rumi

 

Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.

~ Rumi

 

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened…. Let the beauty we love be what we do.

~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

 

My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.

~Rumi

 

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

~ Rumi

 

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

~Rumi

 

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

~ Rumi

 

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

~Rumi

 

Silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.

~ Rumi

 

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

~Rumi

 

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

 

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

~Rumi

 

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

~ Rumi

 

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

~ Rumi

 

There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into Light.

~Rumi

 

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

~ Rumi

 

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.

~Rumi

 

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

~ Rumi

 

And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

~Rumi

 

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

~ 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

 

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

~Rumi

 

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

~ Rumi

 

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

~Rumi

 

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

~ Rumi