Rumi Quotes on Love, Life, Nature & the Universe

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”

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

“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

 “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.”

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

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

“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?”

“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.”

“And so it is, that both the devil and the angelic spirits present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.”

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.”

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“Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”