Rumi Quotes on Soul
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.
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.
Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.
Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.
Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
The soul has no secret that the behavior does not reveal.
The wound is where the light enters you.
The soul doesn’t know deadlines.
Be the witness, not the reaction.
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
Don’t be satisfied with your spiritual progress. Seek to experience the divine within.
Each one has its own way of moving, and it is only through a heavenly melody that our souls can become one.
Don’t be afraid of your wounds. They are the openings through which the universe enters you.
Let silence take you to the core of life.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
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.
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
Your soul is here for its own joy.
Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about.
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
Don’t be a prisoner to any form.
Love is not just an emotion, it is your very existence.
You are not the drop in the ocean, but the entire ocean in a drop.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
The soul has no limitations except those that it accepts.
What you seek is seeking you.
In the dark times, let your soul shine.
Don’t be scared to attempt the impossible for love.
Give yourself credit for the days your heart’s lightened instead of blaming yourself when it gets heavier.
Dance when you’re broken open. Dance when you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.
If you are seeking, seek us with joy. For we live in the kingdom of joy.
Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter.
You are not just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean in a drop.
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
When you lose all sense of self, the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish.
I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.
Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.
The soul sometimes leaves the body, the returns. When someone doesn’t believe that, walk back into my house.
When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me.
Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it?