Rumi Quotes

Rumi Quotes About Love

Rumi's most beloved quotes about divine love, human love, and the transformative power of the heart.

1. “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.”

2. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

3. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”

4. “This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.”

5. “Love is not an emotion, it's your very existence.”

Rumi Quotes About the Heart

Rumi's wisdom on listening to the heart, opening to love, and finding truth within.

1. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

2. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

3. “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”

4. “There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.”

5. “Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.”

Rumi Quotes About Transformation

Rumi's teachings on spiritual growth, change, and becoming who you truly are.

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

2. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”

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

4. “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”

5. “The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.”

Rumi Quotes About Seeking

Rumi's poetry on the spiritual journey, longing, and discovering what you seek.

1. “What you seek is seeking you.”

2. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”

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

4. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

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