Rumi is one of my favorite poets. His poetry inspires me deeply. I love reading his works. All of his poems are meaningful and unique.
I want to share some of my most Rumi poems.
Here’s a list of 70 Rumi quotes on life.
1)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.
2)The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
3)Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
4)Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
5) What you seek is seeking you.
6) Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.
7)Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
8)If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
9)When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
10)You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
11)Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
12)My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
13)silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
14)Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
15)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.
16)Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
17)Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
18)Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
19)Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
20)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.
21)I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
22)Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
23)I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.
24) Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
25) Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
26) 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.
27) Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
28) Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
29) Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
30) Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
31) We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
32) And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
33) Two there are who are never satisfied the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
34) 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.
35) I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside.
36) You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
37) Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he’s free.
38) The cure for pain is in the pain.
39) Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
40) I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
41) What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
42) The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.
43) Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.
44) Beauty surrounds us.
45) Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
46) Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
47) When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.
48) In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
49) Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
50) I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
51) Put your thoughts to sleep,do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.
52) Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.
53) There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can’t hope.
54) When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
55) 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.
56) All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.
57) Somewhere beyond right and wrong,there is a garden. I will meet you there.
58) Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
59) Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?
60) The lion is most handsome when looking for food.
61) Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.
62) The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
63) Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.
64) Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being.
65) Shine like the whole universe is yours.
66) Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.
67) What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
68) Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, “I know you’re tired, but come. This is the way.
69) It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
70) I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me.
