More Quotes by Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
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.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
