Inspirational Quotations by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

  • I want to sing like the birds sing
    not worrying about who hears or what they think.
    From Issue 18
  • 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.
    Topic: Love
    From Issue 129
  • Knowledge is light; avarice ice.
    Knowledge is water; this world dirt.
    A trickle of wisdom appears from beyond
    to check the vices of this world.
    Should the trickle become abundant,
    none would endure, be it virtue or vice.
    From Issue 148
  • Seek self-discipline with all your soul.
    Devote yourself to worship and save your soul.
    Be grateful that God gave you the gift of self-discipline,
    for you had no power over it.
    He inspired it within you with the command, "Be!"
    From Issue 228

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