Rumi on Depression Quotes

"The gems that could be found in the desert can never be found in the marketplace."

"Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation."

"Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy."

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

"Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there."

"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting."

"Do not sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun and immerse in the sea."

"Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live."

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

"Every need brings what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child."

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

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

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

"In the driest whitest stretch of pain's desert, that is the point where you will find the water."

"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled."

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

"Patience is the key to joy."

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

"The cure for pain is in the pain."

"Don't get discouraged. Hope is the source of all things."

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

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

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

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

"When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray."

"Why should I be weary when help is at hand? Why should I be unhappy when a beautiful song is playing?"

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

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

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

"Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances."

"Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise."

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

"I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul."