Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, and more popularly simply as Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, and Sufi mystic. Rumi’s influence transcends national borders and ethnic divisions, with wide-spread appreciation for his spiritual legacy for the past seven centuries. His poems have been widely translated into many of the world’s languages and transposed into various formats. Rumi has been described as the “most popular poet”^[15] and the “best selling poet” in the United States.

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. His works are widely read today in their original language across Greater Iran and the Persian-speaking world. Translations of his works are very popular, most notably in Turkey, Azerbaijan, the United States, and South Asia. His poetry has influenced not only Persian literature, but also the literary traditions of the Ottoman Turkish, Chagatai, Urdu, Bengali and Pashto languages.

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“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.”

“Stop acting so small.
You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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?”

“Words are a pretext.
It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”

“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.”

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

“I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”

“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.”

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”

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

“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”

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

“Reason is powerless in the expression of love.”

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”

“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded.
Someone sober will worry about things going badly.
Let the lover be.”

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

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

“Take someone who doesn’t keep score,
who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality:
he’s free.”

“When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.”

“Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.”

“I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.”

“Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy;
weep, that you may break into laughter.

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

“Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought.”

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

“The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”

“The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.”

“Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.”

“Love is the bridge between you and everything.“

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

“To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.”

“Dance until you shatter yourself.“

“It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you,
but no one can walk it for you.”

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

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”

“Very little grows on jagged rock.
Be ground. Be crumbled, so wild flowers will come up where you are.”

“What hurts you, blesses you.
Darkness is your candle.”

“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”

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

“Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.”

“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”

“Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”

“This is a subtle truth.
Whatever you love you are.”

“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.”

“We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.”

“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”

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

“Your heart knows the way.
Run in that direction.”

“Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.”

“When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”