Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)

Sufi Poet, Mystic Persian 1207 – 1273

Persian Sufi poet; founded Mevlevi Order; known for spiritual poetry.

376 quotes

"Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths."
Imagination
"There is a war between the ones who say the world is just a dream and the ones who say life is real."
Philosophy
"Do not despair of the results of your effort."
Perseverance
"If you yearn for the Eternal, make your arms into lassoes to catch it."
Faith
"The question asks nothing and answers nothing."
Knowledge
"You are not separate from the whole. You are the whole, disguised as an individual."
Truth
"I cannot prescribe all the inner aspects of existence because they are infinite and impossible to count."
Wisdom
"The Beloved is all; the lover only veils the Beloved."
Love
"Every moment contains the whole of existence."
Time
"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love."
Motivation
"You are seeking yourself through others."
Relationships
"The one who plants dates does not harvest dates."
Patience
"I am a mirror. I reflect the one who looks into me."
Relationships
"This moment is an opening; pass through it."
"Knowledge is learning something new every day; wisdom is letting go of something useless every day."
Wisdom
"You are the sky. Everything else is just weather."
Strength
"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea."
Health
"When you do things from the soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."
Creativity
"The only sickness you cannot heal is a sickness you deny."
Truth
"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend."
Love
"I belong to You; who else do I belong to?"
Faith
"The visible animals have evolved; the spiritually evolving ones are those turning back into essence."
Change
"By the time you finish reading this sentence, you will have changed."
Change
"The moment you leave this world, you will regret every moment you spent in anger."
Death
"I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life."
Love
"Passion makes the old medicine new."
Creativity
"Let the beauty we love be what we do."
Art
"You think because you understand one you must understand the other; but you must study each as its own book."
Education
"The wound is the place where all the Light comes in."
Hope
"Love is the way I travel."
Love