Quotes by Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi

Explore a curated collection of 17 quotes by Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
yet you worry — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open? — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself. — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership,who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange. — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
You're water. We're the millstone.You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes.You're spirit. We're the opening and clos — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Knowledge that is acquiredis not like this. Those who have it worry ifaudiences like it or not.It's a bait for popularit — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
When you go through a hard period,When everything seems to oppose you,... When you feel you cannot even bear one more mi — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope.The hopers would feel slighted if they k — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.I don't plan it.When I'm outside the saying of it,I get very quiet and r — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them. — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Notice how each particle moves.Notice how everyone has just arrived here from a journey.Notice how each wants a differen — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
You are so weak. Give up to grace.The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.You need more help than you kn — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Without demolishing religious schools (madrassahs) and minarets and without abandoning the beliefs and ideas of the medi — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Whoever's calm and sensible is insane! — Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi