More Quotes by Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
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.
silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
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.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
