Rumi on Anxiety Quotes

"Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably."

"The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide."

"Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking."

"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."

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

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

"Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?"

"Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter."

"Life is a balance of holding on and letting go."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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?"

"Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths."

"The middle of the night, a new moon, that’s when the heart begins its work."

"Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow."

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

"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."

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

"Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots."

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

"Reason is powerless in the expression of love."

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."

"The lion is most handsome when looking for food."

"There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen."

"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults."

"Grace comes to forgive and then forgive again."

"Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That is where the light enters you."

"What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle."

"Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation."