Rumi Quotes About Freedom

• Let silence take you to the core of life.

  Rumi

  Inspiring, Freedom, Silence

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “One Whisper Of The Beloved”

• Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

• Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.

  Rumi

  Freedom, Wings, Two

• If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place unless you take off your shoes. Your shoe-constriction has you confined. At night before sleeping you take off the tight shoes, and your soul releases into a place it knows. Dreams glide deeper.

  Rumi

  Dream, Freedom, Sleep

• Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.

  Rumi

  Freedom, Ocean, Moving

• Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.

  Rumi

  Freedom, Dangerous

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.44, Lulu.com

• Physical existence is so cramped.We grow old and bent over like embryos.Nine months passes;it is time to be born. The lamb wants to graze green daylight. There are ways of being born twice,of coming to where you fly,not individually like birds, but as the sun moves with his bride,sincerity.

  Rumi

  Freedom, Moving, Bird

• Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields before the planting.

  Rumi

  Freedom, Preparation, Fields

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