More Quotes by Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
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.
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.
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.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
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.
