Rumi Quotes About Life

• Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Change
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  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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

  Rumi

  Life, Encouragement, Spirit

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.205, Penguin UK

• You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 26, 2006.

• The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

  "Donald Trump Fails George W. Bush's Lessons From 9/11" by John Bridgeland, time.com. October 19, 2016.

• Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Path for Greatness : Work as Spiritual Service". Book by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51, 2000.

• I looked in temples churches and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.

  Rumi

  Life, Heart, Church

• Love is the bridge between you and everything.

  Rumi

  Love, Life, Yoga

  "Overcoming Bigotry With Grace" by Arzu Kaya Uranli, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2015.

• Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.

  Rumi

  Life, Spiritual, Distance

• Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

  Rumi

  Life, Silent, Said

  "Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.

• Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

  Rumi

  Life, Beautiful, Faith

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.473, Delphi Classics

• Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.

  Rumi

  Life, Ocean, Foundation

  "Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.

• I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

  Rumi

  Life, Death, People

• Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  "The true spiritual leader of Iran is Rumi" by Melody Moezzi, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.

• We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

  Rumi

  Life, Dancing, Meditation

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.147, Penguin UK

• In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Religion

• Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

  Rumi

  Life, Pain, Medicine

• Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

• Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?
  What do you know of Love except the name?
  Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,
  and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.
  Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:
  it has no interest in a disloyal companion.
  The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:
  that root must be cherished with all one's might.

  Rumi

  Life, Mean, Pride

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.235, Shambhala Publications

• At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.

  Rumi

  Life, Ends, Breaths

• What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
  of your love, that somehow contains
  the entire universe.

  Rumi

  Life, Beauty, Shadow

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.44, Penguin UK

• Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
  every success depends upon focusing the heart.

  Rumi

  Life, Wisdom, Heart

  "Jewels of Remembrance: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Camille Helminski, 1996.

• The soul is here for its own joy.

  Rumi

  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

• Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth.

  Rumi

  Life, Dream, Truth

  "Selected Poems".

• Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.
  Someone sober will worry about events going badly.
  Let the lover be.

  Rumi

  Love, Life, Spiritual

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 4: "Spring Giddiness", p. 46, 1995.

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