Rumi
(33 quotes)
Wednesday Aug 24, 2022
Rumi: The universe and yourself
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
Friday Jun 3, 2022
Rumi: Who to ignore
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
Thursday May 26, 2022
Rumi: Your words and your voice
Raise your words, not your voice.
It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Friday May 20, 2022
Rumi: Singing like birds
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Rumi: What to change
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Thursday Feb 3, 2022
Rumi: Stories
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
Tuesday Nov 30, 2021
Rumi: Love is reckless
Love is reckless, not reason.
Reason seeks a profit.
Having died of self-interest.
Love risks everything and asks for nothing.
Friday Nov 6, 2020
Rumi: Seeking advice
When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.
Thursday Sep 3, 2020
Rumi: How to listen, see and speak
Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.
Friday Aug 7, 2020
Rumi: Help someone's soul heal
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
Friday Jun 5, 2020
Rumi: Do the things from your soul
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Thursday May 21, 2020
Rumi: The candle and the void
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?
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Rumi: Seek within yourself
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.
Wednesday Dec 18, 2019
Rumi: Oh soul
Oh soul you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Why do you worry?
Wednesday Oct 9, 2019
Rumi: Loving
Whenever we can manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.
Wednesday Dec 19, 2018
Rumi: The drop and the ocean
You are not a drop in the ocean.
You are the ocean in a drop.
Thursday Aug 30, 2018
Rumi: The inner bond
Words are a pretext.
It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
Thursday Nov 17, 2016
Rumi: Secret way of being with the mystery
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.
Wednesday Nov 9, 2016
Rumi: The strange pull of what you really love
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
Friday Nov 4, 2016
Rumi: Goodbyes
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
Friday Oct 28, 2016
Rumi: Be empty of worrying
Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?