More Quotes by Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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.
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.
