Rumi Quotes about Life

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.

Rumi

Life, Spiritual, Distance

What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul?

Rumi

Life, Dark, Soul

Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow.

Rumi

Inspirational, Life, Positive

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.

Rumi

Life, Wisdom, Heart

"Jewels of Remembrance: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Camille Helminski, 1996.

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

Rumi

Love, Life, Sufi

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.245, Penguin UK

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.

Rumi

Life, Beauty, Shadow

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.44, Penguin UK

This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly, no grand discourse, no proper schooling required. There is no master, no disciple. This gathering is more like a drunken party, full of tricksters, fools, mad men and mad women. This is a gathering of Lovers.

Rumi

Life, Smart, Party

"Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.

Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth.

Rumi

Life, Dream, Truth

"Selected Poems".

Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar- eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life.

Rumi

Life, Beautiful, Love Is

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Rumi

Inspirational, Life, Beauty

"The true spiritual leader of Iran is Rumi" by Melody Moezzi, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation? What do you know of Love except the name? Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain, and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion. Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal: it has no interest in a disloyal companion. The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God: that root must be cherished with all one's might.

Rumi

Life, Mean, Pride

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.235, Shambhala Publications