Rumi
Greatest Sufi mystic poet
Most quoted
"Oh, soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul of the soul, the pure, immaculate, and radiant soul."
— from The Essential Rumi
"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."
— from Masnavi, 1250
"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."
— from Discourses of Rumi
All quotes by Rumi (179)
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
What you seek is seeking you.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love.
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.
There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.
The lamps are different, but the Light is the same.
This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
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.
Contemporaries of Rumi
Other Philosophys born within 50 years of Rumi (1207–1273).