Despite the significant changes that have taken place since 13th century, Rumi’s words still hold substantial wisdom and provide timeless guidance for navigating the complexities of the human experience. Here’s a list of some of his enlightening quotes that still hold ground after all these years.
Rumi Quotes on Navigating Life’s Ups and Downs
Be an empty page, untouched by words. – Rumi
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop. – Rumi
Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty. – Rumi
Let yourself become living poetry. – Rumi
Sit, be still, and listen. – Rumi
The source of now is here. – Rumi
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. – Rumi
Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. – Rumi
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls. – Rumi
Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again. – Rumi
Life is a balance between holding on and letting go. – Rumi
Live life as if everything is rigged in your favour. – Rumi
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. – Rumi
The lion is most handsome when looking for food. – Rumi
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. – Rumi
The rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorns. – Rumi
The wealth within you, your essence, is your kingdom. – Rumi
The wound is the place where the light enters you. – Rumi
To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes. – Rumi
We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us. – Rumi
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. – Rumi
Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the world. – Rumi
If the light is in your heart, you will find your way home. – Rumi
Patience with small details makes perfect a large work, like the universe. – Rumi
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. – Rumi
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. – Rumi
The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind. – Rumi
The message behind the words is the voice of the heart. – Rumi
The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you. – Rumi
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. – Rumi
Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom. – Rumi
With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart. – Rumi
Work. Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere. – Rumi
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. – Rumi
You are not one you are a thousand. Just light your lantern. – Rumi
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life? – Rumi
Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something will find it. – Rumi
Anything which is more than our necessity is poison. It may be power, wealth, hunger, ego, greed, laziness, love, ambition, hate or anything. – Rumi
Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. – Rumi
Beauty surrounds us, but usually, we need to be walking in a garden to know it. – Rumi
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. – Rumi
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. – Rumi
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. – Rumi
I want to sing like the bird’s sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. – Rumi
If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens. – Rumi
In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal. – Rumi
It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. – Rumi
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty. And never any boredom! – Rumi
Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it. – Rumi
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge. – Rumi
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. – Rumi
The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire. – Rumi
The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth. – Rumi
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again. – Rumi
There’s a field somewhere beyond all doubt and wrongdoing. I’ll meet you there. – 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
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
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are. – Rumi
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. – Rumi
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly. – Rumi
Soulful Love Quotes By Rumi
A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke. – Rumi
Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all. – Rumi
Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love. – Rumi
Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there. – Rumi
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. – Rumi
Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart. – 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
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? – Rumi
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. – Rumi
Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love. – Rumi
Let your Teacher be Love itself. – Rumi
Love is the bridge between you and everything. – Rumi
Love rests on no foundation. It’s an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. – Rumi
Love sometimes wants to do us a great favour: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out. – Rumi
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. – Rumi
Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep or games, but only by seeing their beloved. – Rumi
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. – Rumi
This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are. – Rumi
We are born of love; Love is our mother. – Rumi
What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved? – Rumi
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love. – Rumi
Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises. – Rumi
Rumi Quotes You Can Use To Stay Calm Under Pressure
Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others. – Rumi
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace. – Rumi
And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. – Rumi
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. – Rumi
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought. – Rumi
Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. – Rumi
Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come. – Rumi
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. – Rumi
I know you’re tired but come, this is the way. – Rumi
I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind. – Rumi
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. – Rumi
Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen. – Rumi
Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being. – Rumi
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah… it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you. – Rumi
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. – Rumi
Where there is ruin, there is hope for treasure. – Rumi
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. – Rumi
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. – Rumi
Transforming Rumi Quotes on Spirituality
Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk. – Rumi
I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within. – Rumi
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you love. It will not lead you astray. – Rumi
Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake. – Rumi
Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows. – Rumi
Respond to every call that excites your spirit. – Rumi
Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation. – Rumi
The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are. – Rumi
There is a life force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that, don’t look outside, look inside yourself and seek that. – Rumi
What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout. – Rumi
When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray. – Rumi
Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place. – Rumi
Whether one moves slowly or with speed, the one who is a seeker will be a finder. – Rumi
Whoever has heart’s doors wide open, could see the sun itself in every atom. – Rumi
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? – 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
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. – Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. – Rumi
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
Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it. – Rumi
When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music. – 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
Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes. – Rumi
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. – Rumi
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. – Rumi
