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Rumi Quotes – Jalal Ai-din Mohammad Balkhi or often called Rumi is a Persian Sufi poet, theologian, and scholar.
Maybe you are a connoisseur of the poet’s writings, have heard or read his poems which have been translated into various languages and also converted into various formats.
Rumi has also been recognized as one of the “most popular poets as well as the “best-selling poet” in the United States, with a meaningful poet in the world.
Many of Rumi’s works have become one of the most influential works in the world of Sufism and are often referred to as the “Quran in Persian”.
Rumi’s works in the original language have been and still widely read in Greater Persian and Persian-speaking areas.
For that, surely there are many legendary and meaningful Roman writings until now, such as the following quotes which are interesting to read and know.
Here are 150 Rumi quotes that are meaningful and full of the realities of one’s life.
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Rumi Quotes That Are Inspirational And Meaningful For Life
1. “Love sometimes wants to do us a great favour: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”
2. “Beauty surrounds us, but usually, we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”
3. “I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.”
4. “Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”
5. “Either give me more wine or leave me alone.”
6. “Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep or games, but only by seeing their beloved.”
7. Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.”
8. “Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”
9. “We rarely hear the inward music, but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless.”
10. “Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.”
11. “Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul.”
12. “Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.”
13. “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.”
14. “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.”
15. “A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union. Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.”
16. Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.”
17. “Be kind to yourself, dear to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us.”
18. “In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.”
19. “Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.”
20. “Sit, be still, and listen.”
21. “Patience is the key to joy.”
22. “If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”
23. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
24. “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.”
25. “I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”
26. “Dance until you shatter yourself.”
27. “Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again.”
28. “Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.”
29. “Let yourself become living poetry.”
30. “Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.”
31. “The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom.”
32. “To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.”
33. “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”
34. “Be an empty page, untouched by words.”
35. “Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?”
36. “My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit. I will meet you there.”
37. “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
38. “The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire.”
39. “Open your hands if you want to be held.”
40. “Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. Halfheartedness does not reach into majesty!”
41. “Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.”
42. “The soul is here for its own joy.”
43. “Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.”
44. “Let’s rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another.”
45. “My heart, sit only with those who know and understand you.”
46. “There is nothing I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves.”
47. “Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.”
48. “Study me as much as you like, you will never know me. For I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be.”
49. “Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together.”
50. “Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.”
51. “My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.”
52. “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”
53. “The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”
54. “Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.”
55. “Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”
56. “What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.”
57. “In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.”
58. “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”
59. “There’s a field somewhere beyond all doubt and wrong doing. I’ll meet you there.”
60. “Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.” – Unknown
61. “Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”
62. “Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?”
63. “The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.”
64. “Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”
65. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
66. “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
67. “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?”
68. “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
69. “Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.”
70. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
71. “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”
72. “The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.”
73. “All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.”
74. “Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything.”
75. “Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”
76. “In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.”
77. “Clean out your ears, don’t listen for what you already know.”
78. “The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.”
79. “When you lose all sense of self, the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish.”
80. “Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.”
81. “Two there are who are never satisfied – the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
82. “Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.”
83. “Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.”
84. “Why are you knocking at every door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.”
85. “Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.”
86. “You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”
87. “Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.”
88. “Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”
89. “What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.”
90. “The source of now is here.”
91. “You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”
92. “Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe.”
93. “Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.”
94. “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah… it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
95. “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”
96. “Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom.”
97. “The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.”
98. “You are not one you are a thousand. Just light your lantern.”
99. “Work. Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere.”
100. “Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”
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101. “Close your eyes. Fall in love. Stay there.”
102. “The lamps are different, but the light is the same.”
103. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
104. “Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?”
105. “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad.”
106. “Knock. And he’ll open the door.”
107. “The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.”
108. “When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be.”
109. “I found myself.”
110. “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.”
111. “Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.”
112. “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”
113. “Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.”
114. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
115. “Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.”
116. “Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
117. “What you seek is seeking you.”
118. “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
119. “When you do things from the soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
120. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”
121. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
122. “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”
123. “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”
124. “My soul is my guide.”
125. “This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.”
126. “You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
127. “Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.”
128. “Don’t be satisfied with stories. How things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
129. “Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about.”
130. “The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”
131. “There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.”
132. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
133. “Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.”
134. “The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.”
135. “Shine like the universe is yours.”
136. “Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.”
137. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
138. “The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
139. “We are one. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
140. “You’ve seen my descent. Now watch my rising.”
141. “Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.”
142. “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
143. “It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”
144. “You have within you more love than you could ever understand.”
145. “The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”
146. “Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.”
147. “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
148. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life.”
149. “Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.”
150. “The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.”
Those are the 150 quotes of Rumi that can inspire and provide an overview from a world famous poet, Rumi the legendary poet.