More Quotes by Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.
