The following quotes have been gathered from the verified writings and recorded teachings of Rumi. They represent the core of a lifetime of wisdom that has influenced millions of readers worldwide.
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
— Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
— Rumi
“What you seek is seeking you.”
— Rumi
“Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
— Rumi
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
— Rumi
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
— Rumi
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
— Rumi
“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
— Rumi
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
— Rumi
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
— Rumi
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
— Rumi
“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.”
— Rumi
“I looked in temples, churches and mosques, but I found the Divine within my heart.”
— Rumi
“This human being is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.”
— 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
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