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97 Insightful Rumi Quotes That Will Continue To Guide Generations

Famous As: Persian Poet
Born On: September 30, 1207
Died On: December 17, 1273
Born In: Balkh, Afghanistan
Died At Age: 66
Rumi was an august Persian Sunni Muslim poet, theologian, jurist, Sufi mystic, and Islamic scholar, who lived during the 13th-century. His influence surpasses ethnic divisions and national borders. His spiritual legacy has been highly appreciated for past seven centuries. Rumi’s writings, thoughts and poems have been translated into a number of languages and have been converted into various formats. In the United States, Rumi has been described as the ‘top-selling’ and ‘the most popular’ poet. ‘Masnavi,’ which was composed in Konya, is considered to be one the most renowned poems in Persian language. His thoughts, writings and works have a large readership across the globe. We have covered some motivational thoughts and quotes by Rumi that will leave you thinking.
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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

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What you seek is seeking you.

What you seek is seeking you.

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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.

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.

Rumi
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

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

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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.

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.

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

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

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You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

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Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

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When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.

When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

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Knock, And He'll open the door
Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun
Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens
Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

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My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.

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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

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Silence is the language of god, 
all else is poor translation.

Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

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Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

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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.

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.

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Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

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Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

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Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

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I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

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Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

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Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

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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?

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?

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Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

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