Rūmī Quotes
“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.”
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
“What you seek is seeking you.”
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
“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.”
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
“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.”
“Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.”
“I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
“Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.”
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
“To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.”
“It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”
“The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”
“On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a day.”