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)
Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.
The source of my suffering is that I am not what I want to be and I am what I do not want to be.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.
Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.
The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
The world is a mountain, and whatever you utter returns to you.
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
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.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
The soul is here for its own joy.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
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.
Contemporaries of Rumi
Other Philosophys born within 50 years of Rumi (1207–1273).