Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi was an Islamic dervish, a poet, and a Sufi mystic. His teachings have echoed across multiple nationalities and ethnicities starting from the 13th century. His wisdom is still very relevant in today’s society as well.
Perhaps you are familiar with Rumi – most people have encountered a quote of his at some point in their lives. Rumi is regarded as a spiritual guru who has influenced many artists and whose words provide a sense of comfort when one feels lost.
Rumi lead a relatively normal life as a religion teacher until one day in his mid-30s he met a wandering dervish. The dervish – Shams Tabrizi, became his mentor and friend and managed to successfully transform Rumi’s life.
After three years of friendship, however, Shams disappeared, leaving Rumi devastated. He translated these powerful feelings of pain and sadness into his poems.
Rumi’s writing is entranced by the beauty of nature, music, dance, feelings, and anything else that helps make us human. He dives into the mystical parts of the human soul and manages to retell all these things that we can feel but never seem able to express with words.
Here are some of Rumi’s most inspirational quotes that hopefully manage to touch a part of your soul.
Inspirational Quotes By Rumi
1. “Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.”
2. “Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.”
3. “The world’s flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end. ”
4. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
5. “You had better run from me. My words are fire.”
6. “Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.”
7. “Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.”
8. “If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me… For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.”
9. “Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?”
10. “Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given the door with open.”
11. “If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.”
12. “The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.”
Wisdom Quotes By Rumi
13. “The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.”
14. “Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.”
15. “If light is in your heart you will find your way home.”
16. “Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.”
17. “The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.”
18. “You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go, words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean”
19. “Give your weakness to one who helps.”
20. “Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”
21. “The universe and the light of the stars come through me.”
22. “Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.”
23. “This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”
Best Rumi Quotes
24. “Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.”
25. “Shine like the whole universe is yours.”
26. “Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”
27. “You have no idea how hard I’ve looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What’s the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It’s no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I’ve brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.”
28. “What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.”
29. “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”
30. “Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.”
31. “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”
32. “When someone is counting out gold for you, don’t look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.”
33. “They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?”
34. “Anyone who knows me should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face every day.”
35. “Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave ’til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”
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36. “All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.”
37. “I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.”
38. “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
39. “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
40. “In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.”
41. “The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.”
42. “Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
43. “Inside you, there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.”
44. “Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”
45. “When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.”
Last Quotes By Rumi
46. “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
47. “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”
48. “Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”
49. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
50. “This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor…Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
51. “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
52. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
53. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
54. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
55. “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
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