More Quotes by Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
What you seek is seeking you.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
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.
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.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
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.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
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.