Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Wisdom, Desire
Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah did. It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Action
A road might end at a single house, but it’s not love’s road. Love is a river. Drink from it.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
If you want money more than anything, You’ll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you’ll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: whatever you love, you are.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love: We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Courage, Growth
The lion who breaks the enemy’s ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Action
Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say! Please, universal soul, practice some song, or something, through me.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
No prayer is complete without presence.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Love, Prayer
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Courage, Challenges
Beware! Don’t allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God’s forgiveness.’
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: God, Action
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
I died a mineral, and became a plant.
I died a plant and rose an animal.
I died an animal and I was man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don’t abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Knowledge, Courage, Growth
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?
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Patience is the key to joy.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Joy, Patience, Wisdom
Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Love
Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening. The business of love is to make that window in the heart, for the breast is illumined by the beauty of the Beloved. Gaze incessantly on the face of the Beloved! Listen, this is in your power, my friend.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
You think the shadow is the substance.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Wisdom, Truth
Be like melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Brother stand the pain;Escape the poison of your impulses.The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do.Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun.Turn away from the cave of your sleeping.That way a thorn expands to a rose.A particular glows with the universal.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Growth, Beauty, Courage
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Topics: Enthusiasm
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you … this turning toward what you deeply love saves you.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
You have forgotten the One
who doesn’t care about ownership,
who doesn’t try to turn a profit
from every human exchange.
—Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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