Rumi > Quotes

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Rumi

“He doesn’t have a palace,” he was told,
“Except his soul, illumined like pure gold.”
― rumi, The Masnavi I Ma'navi

“Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.”
― Rumi

“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

“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, The Persian Mystics: Jalalu'd-Din Rumi

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears. Clarity doesn't come before action. It comes from action.”
― Rumi

“You broke the cage and flew”
― Rumi

“Something within you knows the way. Surrender to that inner wisdom.”
― Rumi

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted
to change the world. Today I am
wise, so I am changing myself.
-Rumi”
― Rumi

“The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you”
― Rumi

“When you crack the jugs, the water is one”
― Rumi , The Essential Rumi – Actual Rumi Poems: Bilingual Edition: Persian Original & English Translation Line by Line

“Live life as if life is rigged in your favor.”
― Rumi

“Beyond our ideas of right doing & wrong doing, there's a field. I'll meet you there.”
― Rumi

“If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.”
― Rumi

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
― Rumi

“We’re kicked and punched by fantasies all day
From fear of loss to hope of higher pay”
― Rumi, The Masnavi I Ma'navi

“Don’t get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.”
― Rumi

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted
to change the world. Today I am
wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
― Rumi

“To cloak his words he’d use a parable
So foes could not grasp what was valuable,
And he extracted answers from each foe
While from his questions none of them would know!”
― rumi, The Masnavi I Ma'navi