Rumi on Mental Models Quotes

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

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

"The inspiration you are seeking is already within you. Be silent and listen."

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

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

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

"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."

"Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life."

"Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it."

"Knock, And He'll open the door. Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun."

"What you seek is seeking you."

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

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

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

"Listen to the reed and the tale it tells, how it sings of separation."

"Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there."

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

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

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

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

"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems."

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

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

"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart."

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

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

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

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

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

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

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

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

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