Rumi Quotes – Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

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

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

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

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

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

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.

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.

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

You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun.

Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

Don’t be afraid of your weaknesses; they are the stepping stones towards your strengths.

Be a mirror, reflecting yourself back, and studying the reflections of others.

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

Rumi Quotes – Wisdom for a Fulfilling Life part 2

Let go of what you think you know. Instead, know from a deeper place within.

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

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

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of the one who sees.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.

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

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.

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

What you seek is seeking you.

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

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

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

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

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

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

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun.

What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

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.

Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

In silence, there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.