Rumi Quotes About Conformity

• Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Light, Land

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.104, Lulu.com

• Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next.

  Rumi

  Writing, Thinking, Balls

• There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

  Rumi

  Light, Conformity, Grain

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.45, Penguin UK

• When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.

  Rumi

  Conformity, Wells, Bottom

• You have mourned over others; now sit down for a while and weep over your own self.

  Rumi

  Self, Over You, Conformity

• Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.

  Rumi

  Wine, Conformity, Existence

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