Rumi quotes on love

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

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 wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

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.

Only one thing matters. Love. This vibrant now.

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

What you seek is seeking you.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

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.

Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.

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.

The lion is most handsome when looking for food.

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.

Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

There is no worse sickness for the soul than the thought of hoarding countless possessions.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill. Let yourself fall ill.

We come trembling into the beautiful world like a spark of light and get lost into the shadows.

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

What hurts you, blessings you. Darkness is your candle.

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

Lose your soul in God’s love, for only there is life.

The soul knows everything you need.

Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

You feel discontented because you know you could be giving. You are empty on the inside because you have never achieved the sense of completion that giving brings.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

Be empty of the worries of how long? Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.