More Quotes by Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
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.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
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.
