"Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you."

— Rumi

"Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn and take a seat in another room. Soul-makers find each other's company."

— Rumi

"Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love."

— Rumi

"Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

— Rumi

"Bring the pure wine of love and freedom. But sir, a tornado is coming. More wine, we'll teach this storm A thing or two about whirling."

— Rumi

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

— Rumi

"Our death is our wedding with eternity."

— Rumi

"When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music."

— Rumi

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

— Rumi

"Lovely days don't come to you, you should walk to them."

— Rumi

"If Your Eyes Are Opened, You'll See The Things Worth Seeing."

— Rumi

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"

— Rumi

"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd."

— Rumi

"I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways."

— Rumi

"I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping."

— Rumi

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there."

— Rumi

"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly."

— Rumi

"Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace."

— Rumi

"Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move."

— Rumi

"Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth."

— Rumi

"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?"

— Rumi

"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep."

— Rumi

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

— Rumi

"Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself."

— Rumi

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge."

— Rumi

"What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description."

— Rumi

"What you seek is seeking you."

— Rumi

"Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure."

— Rumi

"I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul."

— Rumi

"You've seen my descent, now watch my rising."

— Rumi