Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi quotes page 1

1207-1273, Persian Muslim poet and theologian

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi 

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

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.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked.
Mawlana Jala-ad-Din Rumi

You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving
through and be silent.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Travel brings power and love back into your life.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Be like melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

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.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Are you fleeing from love because of a single humiliation? What do you know of love except
the name?
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and
death.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Let us fall in love again and scatter gold dust all over the world.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

You wander from room to room. Hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around your
neck.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the
cup in front of us: we taste only sacredness.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

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.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

The prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
Mawlana Jalal-ad-Din Rumi

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