Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. He is most famous for his works of poetry and his ideas of spiritual freedom, love, and understanding. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets in history and has had a profound influence on Islamic and Persian culture. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Rumi on love, life, change.
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.
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.
Last night
I begged the Wise One to tell me
the secret of the world.
Gently, gently, he whispered,
"Be quiet,
the secret cannot be spoken,
It is wrapped in silence."
Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love
Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.
Do not look back,
No one knows how the world ever began.
Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever.
If you dwell on the past or future,
You will miss the moment.
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Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.
Wherever you are, whatever you do, be in love. — Rumi
Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure. — Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. — Rumi
Try no to resist the changes that come in your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? How Rumi Can Change Your Life?
You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it. — Rumi
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure. — Rumi
In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion. — Rumi
Protect yourself......from your own thoughts. — Rumi
I asked, Why I received only this? A voice replied, Only this will lead you to that.
Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart. — Rumi
You show you worth by what you seek.
Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there. — Rumi
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. — Rumi
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? — Rumi
Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move. — Rumi
My sight
My heart
My Life
All three words I have woven into one ... Love. — Rumi
We seek outside the wonders we carry inside us.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. — Rumi
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart — Rumi
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? — Rumi
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. — Rumi
Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love. — Rumi
Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it.
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.
This is Now. Now is,
all there is. Don't wait for Then;
strike the spark, light the fire.
You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern.
Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Light the incense! You have to burn to be fragrant.
Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
Rumi Quotes About Love
I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind.
Just in case...
HEART might stop. MIND can forget.
I Love them with my Soul.
SOUL never stops or forgets. — Rumi
In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion. — Rumi
Protect yourself......from your own thoughts. — Rumi
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. — Rumi
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. — Rumi
To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel. — Rumi
Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there. — Rumi
The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around! — Rumi
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames — Rumi
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth. — Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Life
Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea. — Rumi
Be grateful for your life, every detail of it,
and your face will come to shine like a sun,
and everyone who sees it will
be made glad and peaceful. — Rumi
Life is balance of holding on and letting go. — Rumi
I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart. — Rumi
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? — Rumi
Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move. — Rumi
My sight
My heart
My Life
All three words I have woven into one ... Love. — Rumi
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. — Rumi
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. — Rumi
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. — Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Change
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself — Rumi
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. — Rumi
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. — Rumi
Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? — Rumi
Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life. — Rumi
Look at me as many times as you wish,
but you won’t get to know me!
Since you have last seen me,
I’ve changed a hundred times! — Rumi
Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand? — Rumi
Love is cure,
Love is power,
Love is the magic of changes.
Love is the mirror, of divine beauty! — Rumi
Your way begins at the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now. — Rumi
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings. — Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Gratitude
Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude. — Rumi
Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives. — Rumi
We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces. — Rumi
Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk. — Rumi
I open and fill with
LOVE and what is not
LOVE ... evaporates! — Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Friendship
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. — Rumi
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. — Rumi
My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way. — Rumi
Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you. — Rumi
There is nothing I want but your Presence. In friendship, time dissolves. — Rumi
A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another — Rumi
Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses. — Rumi
Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend. — Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Happiness
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi
O, happy the soul that saw its own faults. — Rumi
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. — Rumi
I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams
to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility.
where suffering and pain do not exist,
where we give praises for our joy and happiness,
where our Love interwines with Love for all things. — Rumi
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. — Rumi
Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry
Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake
Fortunate the heart that burns for His sake
Laughter always follow tears
Blessed are those who understand
Life blossoms wherever water flows
Where tears are shed divine mercy is shown — Rumi
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky — Rumi
People want you to be happy. Don't keep serving them your pain! If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves. — Rumi
Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight. — Rumi
The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me. — Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Peace
My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know. — Rumi
When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth. — Rumi
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty. — Rumi
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace. — Rumi
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. — Rumi
Prayer clears the mist
and brings back peace to the Soul . . . — Rumi
If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception. — Rumi
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. — Rumi
Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants. — Rumi
There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye. — Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Soul
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
I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. — Rumi
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. — Rumi
My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar. — Rumi
I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul. — Rumi
Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love. — 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
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. — Rumi
Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but you let fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved, take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything that takes me from you. — Rumi
What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul? — Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Self Love
Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them. — Rumi
I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple. — Rumi
Give yourself a kiss. If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself. — Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Mystic
Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart. — Rumi
Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself. — Rumi
Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being. — Rumi
Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see. — Rumi
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. — Rumi
They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls? — Rumi
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. — Rumi
Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core. — Rumi
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear. — Rumi
There is a Soul within the Soul. Seek it out. There is a Treasure in your mountain. Seek it Out. A mystic in motion, if that's what you are, don't seek out there; seek inside. — Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Spiritual
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. — Rumi
We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences. — Rumi
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come. — Rumi
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged. — Rumi
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart — Rumi
Do not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. "I come and go as I please," you say, "swift as a heartbeat." You can tease me as much as you like but never leave me. — Rumi
Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love. — Rumi
Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. — 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
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep! — Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Heart
Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart. — Rumi
When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon. — Rumi
Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God
manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of
the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and
the leaf. — Rumi
Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet. — Rumi
On this path let the heart be your guide. — Rumi
There is a window from one heart to another heart. — Rumi
I found the Divine within my Heart. — Rumi
Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever. — Rumi
The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart. — Rumi
A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison. — Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Inspirational
Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path. — Rumi
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? — Rumi
Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away. — Rumi
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. — Rumi
If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows. — Rumi
Be suspicious of what you want. — Rumi
Either give me more wine or leave me alone. — Rumi
People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another. — Rumi
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there. — Rumi
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. — Rumi
Rumi Quotes About Hundred
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. — Rumi
For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back. — Rumi
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. — Rumi
Even though you tie a hundred knots, the string remains one. — Rumi
Love means to reach for the sky
and with every breath to tear a
hundred veils. Love means to step
away from the ego, to open the eyes
of inner vision and not to take this
world so seriously — Rumi
I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways. — Rumi
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains. — Rumi
Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey. — Rumi
Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear. — Rumi
A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles. — Rumi
Rumi Famous Quotes And Sayings
Wherever you are, whatever you do, be in love. — Rumi
Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that. — Rumi
Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure. — 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
In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion. — Rumi
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear. — Rumi
Protect yourself......from your own thoughts. — Rumi
All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light. — Rumi
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. — Rumi
Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart. — Rumi
When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it. — Rumi
I want that love that moved the mountains.
I want that love that split the ocean.
I want that love that made the winds tremble.
I want that love that roared like thunder.
I want that love that will raise the dead.
I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy.
I want that love that is the silence of eternity. — Rumi
Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can't see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path...Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want. — Rumi
Be crumbled.
So wild flowers will come up where you are.
You have been stony for too many years.
Try something different.
Surrender. — Rumi
Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there. — Rumi
By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut, but the door of repentance is never closed. Come seize the opportunity: the door is open; carry your baggage there at once. — Rumi
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are. — Rumi
Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind invisible, and the dust manifest. you see the dust whirling, but how can the dust rise by itself? you see the foam, but not the ocean. invoke Him with deeds, not words; for deeds are real and will save you in the infinite-life. — Rumi
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. — Rumi
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? — Rumi
Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move. — Rumi
My sight
My heart
My Life
All three words I have woven into one ... Love. — Rumi
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. — Rumi
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart — Rumi
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? — Rumi
Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color. — Rumi
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust. — Rumi
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh. — Rumi
Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full. — Rumi
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader. — Rumi
Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love. — Rumi
The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground. — Rumi
Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support. — Rumi
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. — Rumi
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. — Rumi
Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony. — Rumi
Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing. — Rumi
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. — Rumi
If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows. — 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 light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart. — Rumi
The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full. — Rumi
Life Lessons by Rumi
Rumi encourages us to remain open to life's experiences and to accept change as a natural part of life. He teaches us to embrace the beauty of life and to find joy in the simple things.
He reminds us to be mindful of our thoughts and to focus on the positive aspects of life. He encourages us to be kind and compassionate to others and to be grateful for all the blessings we have.
Rumi's poetry encourages us to be present in the moment and to appreciate the beauty of life. He reminds us to be humble and to remember that life is a journey and that we should strive to make the most of it.
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