Rumi Quotes About Growth

• To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Growth, Emptiness

• Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Song, Giving

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.263, Penguin UK

• No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Crazy, Home

• Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Growth, Enemy

• You think the shadow is the substance.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Thinking, Growth

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.136, Shambhala Publications

• I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Joy, Growth

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