Top 69 Rumi Inspirational Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Rumi and Shams taught us how to see the world with new eyes, how to find our place in the order of things, and how to extricate the true self trapped under layers of noise.
Jamila Hammad
#3. Open your hands if you want to be held.
Rumi
#4. The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love.
Rumi
#5. I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
Rumi
#6. Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?
Rumi
#7. Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
Rumi
#8. To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."
Rumi
#9. The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#10. Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.
Rumi
#11. If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Rumi
#12. 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
#13. You have forgotten the One
who doesn't care about ownership,
who doesn't try to turn a profit
from every human exchange.
Rumi
#14. Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
Rumi
#15. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
Rumi
#16. Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity.
Go beyond your tangled thoughts and
find the splendor of paradise.
Rumi
#17. People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.
Rumi
#18. In one moment, we are now forever,
in one moment ...
Paul Goldman
#19. 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
#20. Don't try to steer the boat.
Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent.
You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear,
And if you do speak, ask for explanations.
Rumi
#21. Every need brings what's needed.
Pain bears its cure like a child.
Having nothing produces provisions.
Ask a difficult question,
And the marvelous answer appears.
Rumi
#22. Your way begins at the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.
Rumi
#24. Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every 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
#26. God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.
Each note is a need coming through one of us,
a passion, a longing pain.
Remember the lips
where the wind-breath originated,
and let your note be clear.
Don't try to end it.
Be your note.
Rumi
#27. Rumi and Shams bring to our lives the simple truth that we are not alone, that God really does care. And God's joyous love for each of us is rivaled only by Her divine sense of humor.
Jamila Hammad
#28. I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
Rumi
#29. You are not a drop in a ocean,
You are entire ocean in a drop.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#30. Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;
For I am like the Moon,
you will see me with new face everyday.
Rumi
#31. Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care!
Rumi
#32. Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself
Rumi
#33. Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world. Today I am wise and try to change myself.
Rumi
#34. The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.
Rumi
#35. You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Rumi
#36. We had little idea that this was the beginning of a much greater journey towards finding our true self, with Rumi and Shams as our fearless guides.
Jamila Hammad
#37. The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
Rumi
#38. You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this world of dust and matter.
Out of this dust
you have created a personal image,
and have forgotten
about the essence of your true origin
Rumi
#39. When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!
Rumi
#40. You're water. We're the millstone.
You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.
You're spirit. We're the opening and closing
of our hands. You're the clarity.
We're the language that tries to say it.
You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.
Rumi
#41. In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.
Rumi
#42. God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
Rumi
#43. You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.
Rumi
#44. Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
Rumi
#45. This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.
Rumi
#46. Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open!
Rumi
#48. I have spent my life dreaming of your face. Now, I have found it.
Rumi
#49. The fearful ascetic runs on foot, along the surface.
Lovers move like lightning and wind.
No contest.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#50. Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.
Rumi
#51. Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.
Rumi
#52. Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it.
Rumi
#53. There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?
Rumi
#54. Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
Rumi
#55. Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.
Rumi
#56. Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors,
I want burning, burning, burning.
Rumi
#57. Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.
Rumi
#58. We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
Rumi
#60. Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.
Rumi
#61. Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.
Rumi
#62. Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah ... it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
Rumi
#64. The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?
Rumi
#65. Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow.
Rumi
#66. Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
Rumi
#67. 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
#68. Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
Rumi
#69. Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
Rumi
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