More Quotes by Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
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.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
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.
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
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.
