These are Rumi's most beloved and widely favored quotes,
Reflecting his timeless wisdom,
Spirituality,
And poetic beauty.
These quotes capture Rumi's profound insight into love,
Spirituality,
Self-discovery,
And the beauty of the human experience,
Making them favorites among readers around the world.
So I will read a quote and leave seven seconds in between each quote so that you will have time to perhaps think about it just a little bit.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.
It will not lead you astray.
The wound is the place where the light enters.
You were born with wings.
Why prefer to crawl through life?
Don't grieve.
Anything you lose comes around in another form.
What you seek is seeking you.
Yesterday I was clever,
So I wanted to change the world.
Today I'm wise,
So I am changing myself.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a feel.
I'll meet you there.
When you do things from your soul,
You feel a river moving in you,
A joy.
Raise your words,
Not your voice.
It is the rain that grows flowers,
Not thunder.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
These quotes reflect Rumi's emphasis on inner growth,
The beauty of simplicity,
And the transformative power of love and suffering.
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.
Stop acting so small.
You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
If you are irritated by every rub,
How will you be polished?
These pains you feel are messengers.
Listen to them.
Let yourself be living poetry.
The quieter you become,
The more you are able to hear.
I want to sing like the birds,
Not worrying about who hears or what they think.
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
421 to 30.
These quotes from Rumi continue to reflect his deep spiritual insight,
Emphasizing love,
Gratitude,
Self-awareness,
And the beauty of living in the present moment.
Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
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.
The universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself.
Everything that you want,
You already are.
Knock and he'll open the door.
Vanish and he'll make you shine like the sun.
Fall,
He'll raise you to the heavens.
Become nothing and he will turn you into everything.
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad,
That degrade you back toward disease and death.
As you start to walk on the way,
The way appears.
This moment is all there is.
Let yourself become living poetry.
I'm Carol and I'm so grateful that you've joined me in this space of remembering Rumi during September,
His birthday month,
Honoring his wisdom with 30 of the most familiar and beloved quotes.
Thank you for joining me on this journey of inspiration and reflection.
Embrace your journey with gratitude.
