About Rumi: Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, He is most commonly called Rumi in English (Persian: جلالالدین محمد بلخى) , was a 13th-century Persian poet, faqih, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
Rumi’s works are written mostly in Persian, but occasionally he also used Turkish, Arabic, and Greek in his verse. His Masnavi (Mathnawi), composed in Konya, is considered one of the greatest poems of the Persian language.
Rumi’s writings and his quotes are based on his mystical experiences. Rumi’s work is as relevant today and when it was written.
Comparing to Zen, Rumi’s as a poet points towards importance of experience where we can feel and be one with the words and go beyond words.
Here are Rumi’s Inspirational Quotes:
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through Life“
Rumi Quotes on LOVE:
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
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.
Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.
This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.
Reason is powerless in the expression of love.
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.
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.
Rumi’s inspiring and deep quotes:
“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.
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.
What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.
In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.
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?
The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life.
Here is the full stanza from where the quote was taken – 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. Be inspired and kickstart your engine! Rumi
The wound is the place where Light enters you – Rumi
Life is full of challenges, there are ups and downs. Today’s quote by Rumi brings us hope and is an inspiration for our tough times. It is during our low times that we have opening to have Light heal us and take us forward. Listen to our Podcast & Guided Meditation: When we come across tough times in our lives, when things don’t go our
As you start to walk on the way, The way appears
This quote is special to me as I came across it when I was at a cross road. A new opportunity had come my way that was challenging me to step into a a new role. We all face this at some point and resist to step out of our comfort zones. As you start to walk on the way, The way appears Rumi We
You seek knowledge from books…
“You seek knowledge from books. What a shame!… You are an ocean of knowledge hidden in a dew drop…” Rumi
-my grandfather always stressed to me – when we start on spiritual path, we need to forget all we know, we have gained, all the degrees we may have earned, books we have read etc
on spiritual path we again start from 0.
– the person who doesnt know, says he knows.
but the person who knows, knows how little he knows
for me, the more i know, I realize how little I know.
– reminds me of a classic Zen story, where a college professor went to discuss Zen with a Zen master. He said i am phd ….. and want to discuss Zen, why it work etc
Zen master took our tea kettle and started pouring into a cup, and kept pouring and pouring….
until college professor couldnt take it anymore
then zen master said, your mind is like the cup, its full!
what can i show you, if there is no room
-my zen sensei stressed to me, that everything other than zazen is extra. The books, video, dvd etc are all extra. Dont try to be religious, pious, read all the books, sutras. The jewel is within you. Everything else is extra and blah blah blah….
zen even says, take all the books you have and burn them or throw them in garbage – if you meet buddha on the path kill him