Rumi Inspirational Quotations

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

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.

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

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.

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Every need brings what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, And the marvelous answer appears.

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

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.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames

Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care!

You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

Very high, very grand, and very wise is the ocean of God, the Water of Life. You went after the form and were lead astray. How can you see it? You abandoned the truth. Sometimes it is named "tree," sometimes "sun," sometimes "ocean," sometimes "cloud," one thing from which scores of discoveries arise, its slightest definition an everlasting life.

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.

Be suspicious of what you want.

People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.

Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come.

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?

Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prision. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

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.

Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it.

This is enough was always true. We just haven't seen it.

Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.

Open your hands if you want to be held.

Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open!

Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning.