More Quotes by Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi
What you seek is seeking you.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
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.
silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
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.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.