Their friendship lasted for about three years until Shams mysteriously disappeared. It is rumored that one of Rumi’s sons murdered him because he was jealous of their close relationship. Revered as a great poet and spiritual master, his musings on life, love, Sufism and the mysteries of our universe are loved by many! Here we bring you the best 50 Rumi quotes that will transform your view on life, love and the world itself.
Rumi was devastated by the loss of his beloved friend, but used his pain as inspiration for writing poems where Shams is mentioned with great reverence.
Rumi quotes are well known for being wise, thought-provoking and powerful. Let his words help you realize all the power and beauty you have inside you.
Here are Best 50 Rumi Quotes I could find. The goal? To make you think and expand your mind with these beautiful words. And don’t forget to buckle up: Rumi was a profound and moving author. Enjoy!
1. Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
2. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
3. 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.
4. Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes
5. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
6. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
7. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
8. Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
9. When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
10. Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
11. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
12. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
13. I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.
14. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
15. Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the world.
16. Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.
17. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
18. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
19. Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
20. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
21. You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
22. The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.
23. Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
24. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.
25. May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
26. These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
27. We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.
28. Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
29. I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
30. Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.
31. Let silence be the art you practice.
32. It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
33. 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.
34. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
35. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
36. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
37. The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.
38. searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.
39. Woman is the light of God.
40. Inside any deep asking is the answering.
41. When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be.
42. If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?
43. Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?
44. There is a voice that doesn’t use words, listen.
45. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
46. Love is the bridge between you and everything.
47. The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
48. Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
49. My soul is my guide.
50. Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.
51. “Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.”
52. “Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”
53. “Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.”
54. “What you seek is seeking you.”
55. “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
56. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
57. “Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”
58. “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
59. “Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.”
60. “Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.”
61. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
62. “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
63. “We are born of love; Love is our mother.”
64. “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.”
65. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
66. “Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open.”
67. “It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.”
68. “If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself.”
69. “Peaceful is a person who is free of the need to have more or less. Unlike the names that bind them to fame, he is free from suffering.”
70. “Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.”
71. “Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.”
72. “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.”
73. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop”
74. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
75. “Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. Halfheartedness does not reach into majesty”
76. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
77. “Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.”
78. “Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don’t give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.”
79.“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
80. “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”
81. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
82. “There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.”
83. “I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”
84. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
85. “Love sometimes wants to do us a great favour: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”
86. “Be an empty page, untouched by words.”
87.“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
88. “Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.”
89. “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.”
90. “Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.”
91. “I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.”
92. “Be patient where you sit in the dark, the dawn is coming.”
93. “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.”
94. “Actually, your soul and mine are the same, we appear and disappear in each other.”
95. “Raise your words not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers not thunder.”
96. “Your heart knows the way, run in that direction.”
97. “Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give. ”
98. “If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished.”
99. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”
100. “Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. Halfheartedness does not reach into majesty.”
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