Rumi Inspirational Quotes

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.

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

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

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

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

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

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

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

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?

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

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.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ 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.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

You think of yourself as a citizen of the universe. You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out of this dust you have created a personal image, and have forgotten about the essence of your true origin

Give your weakness to one who helps.

An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: For loving a true love. Feet: To chase after. Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind, for learning what men have done and tried to do. Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why. A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.

You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange.

Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! Forget your life, live! Forget yourself and be!

Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself

The same wind that uproots trees makes the grass shine. The lordly wind loves the weakness and the lowness of grasses. Never brag of being strong. The axe doesn't worry how thick the branches are. It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves. It leaves the leaves alone.

You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.

Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

You can't stop dreaming just because the night never seems to end.

God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note.

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

Wherever you stand, be the Soul of that place.

If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.

From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try to put out a fire by throwing on more fire. Do not wash a wound with blood. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes it's in front. Only full, overhead sun diminishes your shadow. But that shadow has been serving you. What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.

Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World.

Dance less in motion and more in spirit; awaken the dreamer within.

In one moment, we are now forever, in one moment...

If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.

Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.

Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.

Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.

Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.

Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.

If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.

Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.

Break your pitcher against a rock. We don't need any longer to haul pieces of the ocean around.

Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.

The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.

The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.

From "Blasphemy and the Core" Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.

Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.

Don't breathe to survive; dance and feel alive.

Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.

Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of the One. Blessed is the poem that comes through me but not of me because the sound of my own music will drown the song of Love.

Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.

I have spent my life dreaming of your face. Now, I have found it.

Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.

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

Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.

You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see your treasure glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes.

She did not need anyone else's love when she had roses.

DANCE – Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression.

The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.

Soar like an eagle beyond skies of heavens reach; as wings of dreams dance with winds of reality.

Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those... whose existence is dance,

The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love.

She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.

The universe has her hands busy in my mind, knitting words together to blanket your wailing heart with something intricately designed.

Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious.

نه شرقییم، نه غربییم نه بییم، نه بحرییم نه از کان طبیعیم، نه از افلاک گردانم نه از خاکم، نه از آبم، نه از بادم، نه از آتش نه از عرشم، نه از فرشم، نه از کونم، نه از کانم نه از هندم، نه از چینم، نه از بلغار و صقسینم نه از ملک عراقینم نه از خاک خراسانم نه از دنیی، نه ازعقبی، نه از جنت، نه از دوزخ نه از آدم، نه از حوا، نه از فردوس رضوانم مکانم لا مکان باشد، نشانم بی نشان باشد نه تن باشد، نه جان باشد، که من از جان جانانم

بحثت عن الروح في البحر ووجدت المرجان هناك وتحت الرغوة كان كل المحيط يرقد عاريا لأجلي في ليل قلبي وعلى طول الطريق الضيق شعرت بالضوء ارض أبدية من النهار

One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies.

Dance is the ritual of immortality.

Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me your inspiration So that I might see mine.

Hanya hati yang berdarah-darah sajalah yang mampu melihat cahayaNya" (kata-kata Syams kepada istrinya, Kimya, yang juga anak angkat Rumi)

Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets. But they are not gone. ~Rumi

Doost", Ahmed voiced. "Doost",he repeated softly,shutting his eyes. The word felt like a caress. "what does it mean?" 'It means "The Friend","The One I Love","the One I Long For".

That unknown is a diamond in a universe of dirt. Uncertainty. Unpredictability. It is when you turn your emotions into art. It is BTS and the Sistine Chapel and Rumi's poetry and Ross Geller on the stairs yelling, 'Pivot.' Every creation great and small, they are our diamonds.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. The wound is the place where the Light enters you. Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.

Your cruelties and mistakes may look damning to you, but that is not what I see. Every human conversation is more elegant and complex than the entire solar system that contains it. You have no idea how marvelous you are, but I am not only here to protect what you are now, I am here to protect what you will become. I can't tell you what that might be because I don't know. That unknown is a diamond in a universe of dirt. Uncertainty. Unpredictability. It is when you turn your emotions into art. It is BTS and the Sistine Chapel and Rumi's poetry and Ross Geller on the stairs yelling, 'Pivot.' Every creation great and small, they are our diamonds. And what you may be in two hundred years, we can guess with fair accuracy. What you are in two thousand . . . Oh, my friends . . . my best friends, you cannot know.

Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when the unparalleled lyrical grace, philosophical brilliance, and spiritual daring of his work took modern Western readers completely by surprise. The impact of its soulful beauty and the depth of its profound humanity were so intense that they reportedly prompted numerous individuals to spontaneously compose poetry.

હું તમને મહાનતાનો એક રસ્તો બતાવું છું. તમે સપનાઓ જુઓ. મોટા સપનાઓ જુઓ. પછી બસ મુઠી વાળીને તે સપનાઓ પાછળ ભાગવાનું ચાલુ કરી દો. તમે નિષ્ફળ થશો. રડવા લાગશો. પડી જશો. કંટાળી જશો. આ હકીકત છે, અને હું તમને બીજી એક કડવી હકીકત કહું છું- તમે અંધકારમાં ફસાઈ ગયા છો, અને ઈચ્છો છો કે તમને કોઈ આંગળી પકડીને લઇ જાય? ના. કોઈને પડી નથી તમે કેટલા ગાંડા છો, ભાંગી ગયા છો, તમને દુઃખ છે. ના. કોઈને તમારા દુઃખને માટે પોતાની સારી-સારી ક્ષણોને બગાડવાનો શોખ નથી. એટલે હવે પડ્યા પછી તમારા પ્રોબ્લેમ સંભળાવવાનું બંધ કરો. એક પણ એક્સક્યુઝ નહી. અંધારામાં ઉભેલા માણસ હંમેશા મજબુરી ભરી વાતો કરે છે, અને બહાના બતાવ્યા કરે છે. હું કહું છું- છોડો એ વાતો. ઉભા થાવ. મેં જોયું છે- કુતરાઓને પણ જયારે ખરજવું થાય, મરવા પડ્યા હોય, તો પણ છેલ્લા શ્વાસ સુધી, બહાર લબડતી જીભ સુકાય જાય ત્યાં સુધી, આંખો બંધ થાય ત્યાં સુધી દોડતા રહે છે. તમને કેમ બહાના કાઢીને બેસી ગયા છો? હું છાતી ઠોકીને કહું છું દોસ્ત...જ્યારે લાઈફ તમને કિક મારે છે, તમે રડવા લાગો છો, અને તમે પડી જાવ છો ત્યારે દુનિયાનો કોઈ પણ માણસ રેફરી બનીને તમારા માટે પરિસ્થિતિને રેડ-કાર્ડ બતાવવા નહિ આવે. તમને સાંત્વના દેવા બીજા ખેલાડીઓ આવશે, પરંતુ તમારે જાતે જ આંસુ લુંછીને રમતમાં ઉભું થવું પડશે. મહાનતા જેવું કઈ હોતું જ નથી, અને જો હોય તો લોહી વાળા હાથે આંસુ લુંછીને મેદાનમાં ઉભા થનારો મહાન બંને છે. ઉભા થઈને દુઃખાવો સહન કરીને દોડનારો મહાન બંને છે. દોડીને પોતાના લક્ષ્ય તરફ, ગોલ મારવા માટે પોતાના હાડકા ખરી જાય ત્યાં સુધીની હિંમત લઈને ભાગનારા મહાન બંને છે. પોતાના શરીરમાં થતા દુખાવાની ફરિયાદ કર્યા વિના ફરી-ફરીને ઉભા થનારા મહાન બંને છે. જો એ મહાનતાના ગોલ-પોસ્ટ સુધી પહોંચવું હોય તો વારંવાર દોડવું પડે છે. અને આ બધું છતાં ઘણીવાર તમે એ ગોલ મારી શકતા નથી. સફળતાની એક ક્ષણ માટે હજારો વાર નિષ્ફળ થવું પડે છે. નિષ્ફળ થઈને મેદાન બહાર ગયા પછી દિમાગની નસોને કસી-કસીને શીખવવું પડે છે. છાતીમાં નવો લાવા શોધવો પડે છે. ફરીવાર વધુ જુસ્સા-જનુન અને નવી સમજ સાથે મેદાનમાં ઉતરવું પડે છે. ફરીથી દોડવું પડે છે. એકપણ ફરિયાદ વિના. બધીજ બાહોશી સાથે. બધા દાવ-પેચ લગાવીને. જરૂર પડે તો રસ્તામાં આવનારને ધક્કો મારીને. છેવટે એ ગોલ-પોસ્ટ સુધી પહોંચવાનું જક્કીપણું જીતી જાય છે. અને એ ગોલ થઇ જાય છે. પછી જીવન નામના મેદાનમાં ટી-શર્ટ કાઢીને નાચવાનું મન થાય છે! રાડો નાખી-નાખીને પોતાની સફળતા દુનિયાને- પ્રેક્ષકોને કહેવાનું મન થાય છે. લોકો તમને ઉત્સાહ-પ્રેમ-જુસ્સો આપે છે. એ સમયે એક પણ આંસુ, દુઃખતું શરીર, તૂટેલા હાડકા ...કોઈ દુઃખાવો મહેસુસ થતો જ નથી. સ્થિર માણસ નહી, હંમેશા દોડનારો જીતી જાય છે. મહાન બંને છે. હું ફરી કહું છું. એ એક ક્ષણ માટે હજારો વાર હારવું પડે છે. મંજુર છે? હજારો એવી જ નિષ્ફળતા ભોગવવી પડશે. હારવું પડશે. મંજુર છે? એક સમયે તમારી પીઠ પર હાથ મુકનારા, તમને સલામ કરનારા જરૂર દેખાશે. કોઈ નહી તો તમારું હૃદય જરૂર તમને ખુશ કરી દેશે.