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Even if you don’t know much about Rumi, you’ve likely heard one of his many inspiring quotes.
Rumi was the greatest Sufi mystic and poet in the Persian language, but his powerful words and quotes have made quite an impact in the United States—even 750 years after his passing. That’s right, Rumi was born back in 1207 and passed in 1273. Still, Rumi’s quotes from hundreds upon hundreds of years ago are ones that folks can still relate to in our present day. Scholar Jawid Mojaddedi has provided insight into why Rumi’s writings and poems seem to resonate so strongly with people today: “The first of Rumi’s four main innovations is his direct address to readers in the rare second person, I think contemporary readers respond well to this directness.” This, combined with his urge to teach, use of imagery and overarching optimism is a home run for people that crave such wisdom.
Moulana Rumi’s Thoughts
Best of Rumi’s Quotes
Hearing Moulana Rumi
1. “Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.”
2. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
3. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
4. “Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.”
5. “The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.”
6. “Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
7. “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
8. “What you seek is seeking you.”
9. “Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”
10. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
11. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
12. “Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.”
Top Rumi Love Quotes
Moulana Rumi’s Thoughts
13. “Love rests on no foundation. It’s an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.”
14. “Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
15. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
16. “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.”
17. “In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
19. “We are born of love; Love is our mother.”
20. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
21. “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
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