Quotes from Jalaluddin Rumi

You were sent to unite peopleYou were not been sent to divide people.

You were sent to unite peopleYou were not sent to divide people.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.

You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?

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

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

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

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

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.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

Give your weakness to one who helps.

Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World.

I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.

With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

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

Let silence take you to the core of life.

I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

By the day, I praised you and never knew it, by night, I stayed with you and never knew it. I always thought I was me but no, I was you and never knew it.