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)
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?
Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.
Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for these two insomnias! And the difference between them.
The way you make others feel is how you feel about yourself.
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.
Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.
The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.
Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.
We are all drops of the same ocean.
The fault is in the look, not in the thing looked at.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.
To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.
When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.
Contemporaries of Rumi
Other Philosophys born within 50 years of Rumi (1207–1273).