Rumi Wisdom

Rumi Wisdom
  1. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
  2. When you do things from the soul, you feel a river moving in you, a Joy.
  3. There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.
  4. Close your eyes. Fall in love. Stay there.
  5. Love is the bridge between you and everything.
  6. We are born of Love; Love is our Mother.
  7. You have within you more love than you could ever understand.
  8. Let silence be the art you practice.
  9. Let silence take you to the core of life.
  10. Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
  11. The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.
  12. My soul is my guide.
  13. The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
  14. Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the world.
  15. Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
  16. Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
  17. What you seek is seeking you.
  18. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.
  19. The wound is the place where the light enters you.
  20. Ignore those that make you fearful and sad.
  21. Knock. And he’ll open the door.
  22. Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?
  23. Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.
  24. The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.
  25. Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
  26. Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
  27. Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.
  28. When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be.
  29. Don’t be satisfied with stories. How things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
  30. The lamps are different, but the light is the same.
  31. We are one. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
  32. You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
  33. Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.
  34. All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
  35. Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.
  36. Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
  37. The garden of the has no limits, except in your mind.
  38. Shine like the universe is yours.
  39. You’ve seen my descent. Now watch my rising.
  40. As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
  41. It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
  42. Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who is not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality; he is free.
  43. I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.
  44. My soul is my guide.
  45. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m not sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
  46. You were born with wing, why prefer to crawl through life.
  47. 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?
  48. Let silence be the art you practice.
  49. If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
  50. You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
  51. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.
  52. Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
  53. There isĀ  a voice that doesn’t use words.
  54. There is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.
  55. The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
  56. The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
  57. Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
  58. Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
  59. Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.
  60. Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
  61. Be an empty page, untouched by words.
  62. What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.
  63. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
  64. The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a true human being.
  65. Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.
  66. Let yourself become living poetry.
  67. Dance until you shatter yourself.
  68. Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.
  69. Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
  70. Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.
  71. The source of now is here.