Quotes by Rumi

“ 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; Become nothing, And he'll turn you into everything. ”

“ Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. ”

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

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

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

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

“ Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. ”

“ The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. ”

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

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

“ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about ”

“ 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. ”