350+ Rumi Quotes And Saying

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8 min readSep 29, 2020

Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī, Mevlânâ/Mawlānā, Mevlevî/Mawlawī, and more popularly simply as , was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. Mowlānā Jalāloddin Balkhi, known in Persia as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī and in the West as Rumi, was born on September 30, 1207, C. E. in Balkh Province, Afghanistan, on the eastern edge of the Persian Empire. Rumi descended from a long line of Islamic jurists, theologians, and mystics, including his father, who was known by followers of Rumi as “Sultan of the Scholars.” When Rumi was still a young man, his father led their family more than 2,000 miles west to avoid the invasion of Genghis Khan’s armies.

Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad. — Rumi

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. — Rumi

There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter. — Rumi

We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust… The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance. — Rumi

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

A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union. Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.” — Rumi

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.” — Rumi

A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.” — Rumi

A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain.” — Rumi

A wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.” — Rumi

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Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.” — Rumi

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.” — Rumi

All religions. All this singing. One song. Peace be with you.” — Rumi

All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.” — Rumi

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.” — Rumi

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’d ever imagined.” — Rumi

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.” — Rumi

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.” — 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

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

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.” — Rumi

Love is the water of life. Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar-eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the water of life.” — Rumi

Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.” — Rumi

Love risks everything and asks for nothing.” — Rumi

Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.” — Rumi

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.” — 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

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.” — Rumi

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.” — Rumi

Move, but don’t move the way fear makes you move.” — Rumi

My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don’t harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don’t teach what you do not know.” — Rumi

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.” — Rumi

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

My heart, sit only with those who know and understand you.” — Rumi

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

My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit. I will meet you there.” — Rumi

Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.” — Rumi

Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.” — Rumi

Now I am sober and there’s only the hangover and the memory of love.” — Rumi

O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.” — Rumi

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” — Rumi

Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.” — Rumi

Oh! Joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul.” — Rumi

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.” — Rumi

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.” — Rumi

On the path of love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the master painter.” — Rumi

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” — Rumi

Shine like the whole universe is yours.” — Rumi

Silence gives answers.” — Rumi

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.” — Rumi

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.” — Rumi

Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, Be more silent.” As that happens, your soul starts to revive.” — Rumi

Sit, be still, and listen.” — Rumi

Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.” — Rumi

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.” — Rumi

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you… This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.” — Rumi

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.” — Rumi

Sorrow… It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” — Rumi

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

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.” — Rumi

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” — Rumi

There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter.” — 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

There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.” — 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

There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.” — Rumi

There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.” — Rumi

There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.” — Rumi

There is a voice that doesn’t use words, listen.” — Rumi

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.” — Rumi

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it’s always in motion.” — Rumi

There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in love. Only lovers can escape out of these two worlds.” — Rumi

There is nothing I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves.” — Rumi

You’ve come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don’t know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.” — Rumi

‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.” — Rumi

Originally published at https://www.allquotesabout.com on September 29, 2020.

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