RUMI is writing about life from his soul and it continues to teach us about life. Some of his quotes are ….
“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
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?
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
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.
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.
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.
The wound is the place where the light enters you.
And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.
When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.
Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.
Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
The lion is most handsome when looking for food.
The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.
Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.
To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.
Dance until you shatter yourself.
It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are.
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.
If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.
This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.
What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.
In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.
“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. ”
“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
“Love is not an emotion, it’s your very existence.”
“Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.”
“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.”
“Every story is us.”
“I choose to love you in silence…
For in silence I find no rejection,
I choose to love you in loneliness…
For in loneliness no one owns you but me,
I choose to adore you from a distance…
For distance will shield me from pain,
I choose to kiss you in the wind…
For the wind is gentler than my lips,
I choose to hold you in my dreams…
For in my dreams, you have no end.”
“I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star.”
“Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?”
“An eye is meant to see things.
The soul is here for its own joy.
A head has one use: For loving a true love.
Feet: To chase after.
Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,
for learning what men have done and tried to do.
Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind
when it only wants to see why.
A lover is always accused of something.
But when he finds his love, whatever was lost
in the looking comes back completely changed.”
“I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or a shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.”
“Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions
with beauty.”
“I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me.”