Rumi

Persian

About Rumi

Persian poet and Sufi mystic whose verse is collected in the Masnavi and inspired the whirling dervishes of the Mevlevi order.

Quotes by Rumi

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.
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What you seek is seeking you.
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Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
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Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
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The wound is the place where the light enters you.
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Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers you have built against it.
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Come to the orchard in spring. / There is light and wine, and sweethearts in the pomegranate flowers. / If you do not come, these do not matter. / If you do come, these do not matter.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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Don't worry about saving these songs! And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music.
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The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.
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