A quote is an impeccable way to put your thoughts on a sheet of paper.It beautifully reinforces your belief in a few words. One never realizes when he/she said something so profound that it can be categorized as a ‘quote.’ That is the beauty of a quote.
A Turkish author, Elif Shafak, wrote the book ‘The Forty Rules of Love’, which was an elegant collection of quotes on Sufism. The book revolves around a Persian poet, Rumi, and his spiritual guru, Shams of Tabriz, and their journey towards the exploration of love and life.
The 13th century-born Sufi poet Rumi was a great believer in the Koran and Islam. Though he was a Muslim mystic, he wrote about the “religion of love” in the last days of his life. He believed that music, poetry, and dance are the path to God.
Separation from Shams of Tabriz proved to be a turning point in Rumi’s life. Inspired by Shams and his philosophy of life, Rumi decided to pen down his thoughts in the form of poems, ghazals, prose, and many more.
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Rumi Quotes
- Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.
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- The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
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- Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
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- Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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- Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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- When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
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- Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
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- 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.
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- Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
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- Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults.Be like running water for generosity.Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are.Be as you appear.
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- This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
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- Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
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- Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.
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- God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
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- Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.
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- This love is the rose that blooms forever.
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- Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what’s hidden.
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- Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
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- You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
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- Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.
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- I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
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- What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
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- Let silence take you to the core of life.
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- Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
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- Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
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- Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.
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- When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.
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- The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
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- Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
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- Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
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- You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
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- The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.
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- The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.
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- Love is the whole thing.We are only pieces.
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- You have no idea how hard I’ve looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What’s the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It’s no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I’ve brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.
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- Give your weakness to one who helps.
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- I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
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- Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.
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- Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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- Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
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- 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.
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- I don’t want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
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- The cure for pain is in the pain.
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- A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That’s how I hold your voice.
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- You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
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- Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
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- Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
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- Gamble everything for love, if you’re a true human being.
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- Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
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- Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
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- Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
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- silence is the language of god,all else is poor translation.
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- If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
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- Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
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- We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
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- You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
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- I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.
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- The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.
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- I didn’t come here of my own accord, and I can’t leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
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- This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.
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- Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
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- Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
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- Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
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- Shine like the whole universe is yours.
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- The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.
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Conclusion
Over the years, Rumi’s poems have been translated into different languages, and he has been one of the most popular poets to date. Today, when the world is divided by ethnicity, race, and language, poets like Rumi bind it together. His out-of-the-box thinking and quotes are treasures that humankind must protect at all costs. With his ney and words of wisdom, he unknowingly enlightened the world.
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