More Quotes by Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
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.
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
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.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
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.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.