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Rumi Wisdom

- Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
- When you do things from the soul, you feel a river moving in you, a Joy.
- There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that.
- Close your eyes. Fall in love. Stay there.
- Love is the bridge between you and everything.
- We are born of Love; Love is our Mother.
- You have within you more love than you could ever understand.
- Let silence be the art you practice.
- Let silence take you to the core of life.
- Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
- The quieter you become the more you are able to hear.
- My soul is my guide.
- The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
- Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the world.
- Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
- Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
- What you seek is seeking you.
- Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.
- The wound is the place where the light enters you.
- Ignore those that make you fearful and sad.
- Knock. And he’ll open the door.
- Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?
- Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.
- The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.
- Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
- Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
- 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.
- When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be.
- Don’t be satisfied with stories. How things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
- The lamps are different, but the light is the same.
- We are one. Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
- You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
- Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.
- All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
- Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.
- Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
- The garden of the has no limits, except in your mind.
- Shine like the universe is yours.
- You’ve seen my descent. Now watch my rising.
- As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
- It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
- 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.
- 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.
- My soul is my guide.
- My soul is from elsewhere, I’m not sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
- You were born with wing, why prefer to crawl through life.
- 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?
- Let silence be the art you practice.
- If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
- You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
- Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.
- Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
- There isĀ a voice that doesn’t use words.
- There is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.
- The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
- The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
- Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
- Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
- Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.
- Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
- Be an empty page, untouched by words.
- What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.
- Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
- The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a true human being.
- Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.
- Let yourself become living poetry.
- Dance until you shatter yourself.
- Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.
- Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
- 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.
- The source of now is here.