Rumi on Wisdom 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 cure for pain is in the pain."

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

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

"The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you."

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

"The middle path is the way to wisdom, but the extremes are the way to strength."

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

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

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

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

"Look for the answer inside your question."

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

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

"Reason is powerless in the expression of Love."

"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."

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"The morning breeze has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep."

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

"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you."

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

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

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

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

"What you seek is seeking you."