If you love quotations on love and life then Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi is not a new name for you. Rumi who was a 13th century Persian poet, an Islamic dervish and a Sufi mystic, is regarded as one of the greatest spiritual masters and poetical intellects. Born in 1207 AD, he belonged to a family of learned theologians. He made use of everyday life’s circumstances to describe the spiritual world. And here are some of his quotes on love and life.
- “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.”
- “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”
- “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
- “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
- “What you seek is seeking you.”
- “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.
- Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
- “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
- “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
- “Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.”
- “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
- “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
- “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
- “Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”
- “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
- “Knock, And He’ll open the door. Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun. Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.”
- “When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.”
- “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
- “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
- “Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.”
- “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
- “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
- “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.”
- “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
- “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
- “Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
- “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
- “Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
- “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”