Rumi was a 13th-century Persia poet, scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic, originally from Iran. Rumi’s poetry speaks of a love that infuses the world, we have collected some of his best work as 50 Best Quotes By Rumi About Love And Life here.
Rumi believed passionately in the use of music, poetry, and dance as a path for reaching God. For Rumi, music helped devotees to focus their whole being on the divine.
Like other mystic and Sufi poets of Persian literature, Rumi’s poetry speaks of love which infuses the world.
Rumi believed passionately in the use of music, poetry, and dance as a path for reaching God. For Rumi, music helped devotees to focus their whole being on the divine.
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”― Rumi
“Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?”― Rumi
“I will be waiting here….For your silence to break,
For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!”
― Rumi
“Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being.”― Rumi
50 Best Quotes By Rumi About Love And Life
“I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me.”― Rumi
“If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.”― Rumi
“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
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grassa
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”― Rumi
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”― Rumi
“What you seek is seeking you.”― Rumi
50 Best Quotes By Rumi About Love And Life
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”― Rumi
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
― Rumi
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”― Rumi
“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.”― Rumi
“Two there are who are never satisfied — the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”― Rumi
“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
― Rumi
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”― Rumi
50 Best Quotes By Rumi About Love And Life
“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”― Rumi
“There are lovers content with longing.
I’m not one of them.”
―Rumi
“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”― Rumi
“Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”― Rumi
“You are a lover of your own experience … not of me … you turn to me to feel your own emotion”― Rumi
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”― Rumi, The Essential Rumi
“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”
― Rumi
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”― Rumi
50 Best Quotes By Rumi About Love And Life
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”― Rumi
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”― Rumi
“Knock, And He’ll open the door.
Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.”
― Rumi
“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.”― Rumi
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”― Rumi
“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
― Rumi
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”― Rumi
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”― Rumi
“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
― Rumi
“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”― Rumi
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”― Rumi
50 Best Quotes By Rumi About Love And Life
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”― Rumi
“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”― Rumi
“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”― Rumi
“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
― Rumi
“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.”― Rumi
“I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”― Rumi
50 Best Quotes By Rumi About Love And Life
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”― Rumi
“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
― Rumi
“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.”― Rumi
“In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances”― Rumi
“Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.”
― Rumi
“Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.”― Rumi.
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