Top 100 Life Rumi Quotes
#1. There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.
Arianna Huffington
#2. Travel brings power and love back into your life.
Rumi
#3. There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.
Rumi
#4. Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
every success depends upon focusing the heart.
Rumi
#5. Believe in love's infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love is life
Rumi
#6. How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver needs several qualities: he must trust his rope and his life to the Friend's hand, he must stop breathing, and he must jump.
Rumi
#7. Why think separately of this life and the next when one is born from the last....
Jalaluddin Rumi
#8. Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means death.
Rumi
#9. Yesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one
Rumi
#10. To the mind there is such a thing as news, whereas to inner knowing, it's all in the middle of its happening. To doubters, this is a pain. To believers, it's gospel. To the lover and the visionary, it's life as it's being lived.
Rumi
#11. They followed the middle way of Muhammad, which included marriage, a socially useful livelihood, and a life "in the world but not of it.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#12. ... the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community
was to open the heart,
explore the mystery of union,
to fiercely search for and try to say the truth,
and to celebrate the glory and difficulty
in being in human incarnation.
Coleman Barks
#13. God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him.
Rumi
#14. My friend, you thought you lost Him;
that all your life you've been separated from Him.
Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him,
and haven't searched within your own house.
Rumi
#15. The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites
Rumi
#16. It would be as if a king sent you to a village on a specific mission. If you went and performed a hundred other tasks, but neglected to accomplish the task for which you were sent, it would be as though you had done nothing.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#17. Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.
Rumi
#18. Someday our souls will be one and
our union will be forever.
I know that everything I give you comes back to me.
So I give you my life , hoping that you will come back to me.
Rumi
#20. I learned that every mortal will taste death, But only some will taste life.
Rumi
#21. Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening
so your life will stay fresh.
Rumi
#22. If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.
Rumi
#23. From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it
Today I have seen
the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace
of the face
that I was looking for
Rumi
#24. A lover's life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.
Rumi
#25. This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.
Rumi
#27. Travelers, it is late.
Life's sun is going to set.
During these brief days that you have strength,
be quick and spare no effort of your wings
Rumi
#28. In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.
Rumi
#29. Wisdom tells us we are not worthy;
Love tells us we are.
My life flows between the two.
Rumi
#30. Be grateful for your life, every detail of it,
and your face will come to shine like a sun,
and everyone who sees it will
be made glad and peaceful.
Rumi
#31. Looking at my life
I see that only Love
Has been my soul's companion
From deep inside
My soul cries out:
Do not wait, surrender
For the sake of Love.
Rumi
#32. Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That.
Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.
Rumi
#33. Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,
Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.
Rumi
#34. If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted.
Rumi
#35. You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.
Rumi
#36. There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.
Rumi
#37. In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.
Rumi
#38. The only mistake you have made is asking the wrong question. It isn't about what you did wrong. It's what you have not yet done.
Holly Lynn Payne
#39. Love asks us to enjoy our life
For nothing good can come of death.
Who is alive? I ask.
Those who are born of love.
Seek us in love itself,
Seek love in us ourselves.
Sometimes I venerate love,
Sometimes it venerates me.
Rumi
#40. To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.
Rumi
#41. We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.
Rumi
#42. Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms.
Rumi
#43. You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Rumi
#44. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life.
Rumi
#45. Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
Rumi
#46. The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked
Rumi
#47. If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.
Rumi
#48. To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life.
Rumi
#49. What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.
Rumi
#50. Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.
Rumi
#51. A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.
Rumi
#52. In truth everything and everyone Is a shadow of the Beloved,
And our seeking is His seeking
And our words are His words ...
We search for Him here and there, while looking right at Him.
Sitting by His side, we ask:
'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'
Rumi
#53. Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry
Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake
Fortunate the heart that burns for His sake
Laughter always follow tears
Blessed are those who understand
Life blossoms wherever water flows
Where tears are shed divine mercy is shown
Rumi
#54. The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.
Rumi
#55. When God
wishes to help,
he lets us weep.
Wherever water flows,
life flourishes,
wherever tears fall
divine mercy is shown.
Rumi
#56. The Law of Wonder rules my life at last,
... I burn each second of my life to Love
Each second of my life burns out in Love
In each leaping second Love lives afresh.
Rumi
#57. When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.
Rumi
#58. World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.
Rumi
#59. Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?
Rumi
#60. Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
Rumi
#61. If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.
Rumi
#62. A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,
cut holes in it, and called it a human being.
Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony
of parting, never mentioning the skill
that gave it life as a flute
Rumi
#63. You that give new life to this planet, you that transcend logic, come. I am only an arrow. Fill your bow with me and let fly.
Rumi
#64. Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments.
Rumi
#65. To live without you
is to be robbed of love
and what is life without it?
To live without you
is death to me, my love
but some call it life.
Rumi
#66. We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.
Rumi
#67. There is a Force within That gives you life Seek that. - Rumi
Jaggi Vasudev
#68. Have you ever seen a seed fallen to earth not rise with a new life why should you doubt the rise of a seed named human.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#69. God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.
Rumi
#70. My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. and I am sitting in my new life.
Rumi
#71. What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
of your love, that somehow contains
the entire universe.
Rumi
#72. Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life.
Elif Shafak
#73. Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side ... . Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now. - RUMI
Tim Farrington
#74. The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.
Holly Lynn Payne
#75. I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.
Rumi
#76. Life's waters flow from darkness, Search the darkness, don't run from it.
Rumi
#77. Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?
Rumi
#78. Live life as if its rigged in your favor.
Rumi
#79. Do not feel lonely,
the entire universe is inside you.
Stop acting so small.
You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Set your life on fire.
Seek those who fan your flames.
Rumi
#80. Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?
Rumi
#81. Though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and will eventually startle us back to the truth of who we are.
Rumi
#82. If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread.
If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul.
If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.
Rumi
#84. Was dead
i came alive
i was tears
i became laughter
all because of love
when it arrived
my temporal life
from then on
changed to eternal
Rumi
#85. In The End
In the end, the mountains of imagination were nothing
but a house.
And this grand life of mine was nothing but an excuse.
You've been hearing my story so patiently for a lifetime
Now hear this: it was nothing but a fairy tale.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#86. The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.
Rumi
#87. You are an ocean in a drop of dew,
all the universes in a thin sack of blood.
What are these pleasures then,
these joys, these worlds
that you keep reaching for,
hoping they will make you more alive?
Rumi
#88. At the end of my life, with just one breath left,
if you come, I'll sit up and sing.
Rumi
#89. There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.
Rumi
#90. Anyone looking for friends without faults shall remain friendless. The choice is yours.
Holly Lynn Payne
#91. The more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is incomplete unless one includes the central theme of love.
Rumi
#92. For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.
From within, I couldn't decide what to do.
Unable to see, I heard my name being called.
Then I walked outside.
Rumi
#93. Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
Rumi
#94. Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity.
Go beyond your tangled thoughts and
find the splendor of paradise.
Rumi
#95. There's a path from me to you
I'm constantly looking for,
so I try to keep clear and still
as water does with the moon.
Rumi
#96. If I hold you in my heart, you'll wither;
Become a thorn if I hold you in my eyes.
No, I'll make a place for you within my soul instead
So you'll be my love in lives beyond this life.
Rumi
#97. In the silence of love
you will find the spark of life
Rumi
#98. Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
Rumi
#99. A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another
Rumi
#100. Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.
Rumi
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