19 inspirational sentences by Rumi encouraging self-reflection and connection with the inner self: x.com
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, known simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.
His legacy is one of spiritual unity and the pursuit of understanding the divine through love and poetry.
His legacy is one of spiritual unity and the pursuit of understanding the divine through love and poetry.
1) “If everything around seems dark, look again, you may be the light.” — Rumi
2) “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” — Rumi
3) “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
— Rumi
— Rumi
4) “Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” ― Rumi
5) “When something makes you happy, reflect on how you will feel in its absence.” — Rumi
6) “It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” ― Rumi
7) “The soul's only desire is reunion. It aches for the place it was torn from.” — Rumi
8) “What you seek is seeking you.” — Rumi
9) “Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.” — Rumi
10) “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” — Rumi
11) “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” — Rumi
12) “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
13) “He who has led you so far will guide you further.”
— Rumi
— Rumi
14) “Do not sell your soul in exchange of anything, this is the only thing you have brought into this world and the only thing you can take back.” — Rumi
15) “When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.” — Rumi
16) “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.”
— Rumi
When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”
— Rumi
17) “Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.”
— Rumi
— Rumi
18) “The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.” — Rumi
19) “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” — Rumi
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