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112 Inspirational Rumi Quotes That Will Inspire You

86 Inspirational Rumi Quotes That Will Inspire You “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop” — Rumi

“Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?” — Rumi, Photo credits Pinterest

“A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.” — Rumi

“Be empty of worrying…. Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.” — Rumi

“Why should I stay at the bottom of a well when a strong rope is in my hand?” — Rumi

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. — Rumi

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars. — Rumi

“When you do things from the soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” — Rumi

“Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?” — Rumi

You go from village to village on your horse asking everyone, “Has anyone seen my horse?” — Rumi

“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.” — Rumi

When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears. — Rumi

“What you seek is seeking you.” — Rumi inspirational rumi quotes

If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves. — Rumi

Dance in the middle of fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free. — Rumi

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” — Rumi

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else. — Rumi

Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one. — Rumi

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.” — Rumi

“Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. Halfheartedness does not reach into majesty.”

“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” — Rumi

“You have within you more love than you could ever understand.” — Rumi

“Close your eyes. Fall in love. Stay there.” — Rumi inspirational rumi quotes

“Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.” — Rumi

“Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.” — Rumi

“The lamps are different, but the light is the same.” — Rumi

“Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.” — Rumi

“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” — Rumi

“My soul is my guide.” — Rumi

“It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” — Rumi

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” — Rumi

“The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.” — Rumi

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad.” — Rumi inspirational rumi quotes

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd. — Rumi

“Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.” — Rumi

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.” — Rumi

“The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.” — Rumi

“This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.” — Rumi

“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.” — Rumi

“Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give. ” — Rumi

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.” — Rumi

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

“Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.” — Rumi

“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.” — Rumi inspirational rumi quotes

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

“Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.” — Rumi

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

This is how we are with wine and beautiful food… we want and we get drunk with wanting, then the headache and bitterness afterward. — Rumi

“Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.” — Rumi

“My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.” — Rumi

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” — Rumi

Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. — Rumi

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” — Rumi

“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” — Rumi

“Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.” — Rumi

“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.” — Rumi inspirational rumi quotes

“What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I’ve lived too long where I can be reached.” — Rumi

“Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.” — Rumi

“Don’t be satisfied with stories. How things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” — Rumi

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?” — Rumi

“Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened…. Let the beauty we love be what we do.” — Rumi

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” — Rumi

“Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.” — Rumi

“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.” — Rumi

“Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you’ve grown, lifting.” — Rumi

“Shine like the universe is yours.” — Rumi inspirational rumi quotes

This is how I would die into the love I have for you: as pieces of cloud dissolve in sunlight. — Rumi

Isn’t it time to turn your heart into a temple of fire? — Rumi

“Knock. And he’ll open the door.” — Rumi

“The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.” — Rumi

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. — Rumi

“I found myself.” — Rumi

“Love is the bridge between you and everything.” — Rumi

No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God. — Rumi

“The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.”

Where will you plant your grief-seeds? We need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire. — Rumi

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

Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you. — Rumi

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” — Rumi

“You’ve seen my descent. Now watch my rising.” — Rumi

“We are one. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.” — Rumi

What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions. — Rumi