Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi – Quotes

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”

“What you seek is seeking you.”

“Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?”

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

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

“Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.”

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

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

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”

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

“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one”

“Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?”

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.”

“Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.”

“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.”

“When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.”

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