Awesome Quotes and Sayings From Rumi
Quotations & Citations:
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
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
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
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