50+ Inspirational Rumi Quotes to Ignite Your Inner Light

Discover a profound collection of Rumi quotes that inspire and uplift the soul. These timeless words encourage self-discovery, love, and transformation. Rumi's wisdom transcends time, offering guidance on embracing your true self and finding joy in every moment. Whether you're seeking motivation or spiritual insight, these quotes illuminate the path to inner peace and inspiration. Dive into this curated selection and let Rumi's poetic voice awaken your heart and mind. Each quote invites you to explore the depths of your being and connect with the universal love that surrounds us all.

Wisdom from the Masters

"At the center of your being, you have the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want."

- Rumi

Inspiration

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

- Rumi

Inspiration

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

- Rumi

Inspiration

"What you seek is seeking you."

- Rumi

Inspiration

"Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction."

- Rumi

Inspiration

"Love is the bridge between you and everything."

- Rumi

Inspiration

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

- Rumi

Inspiration

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

- Rumi

Inspiration

"As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears."

- Rumi

Philosophy

"The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."

- Rumi

Spirituality

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

- Rumi

Personal Growth

"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."

- Rumi

Love

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

- Rumi

Inspiration

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

- Rumi

Motivation

"There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen."

- Rumi

Awareness

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

- Rumi

Balance

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

- Rumi

Inspiration

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

- Rumi

Taking Risks

"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."

- Rumi

Self-awareness

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing 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."

- Rumi

Inspiration

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

- Rumi

Adversity

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

- Rumi

Personal Growth

"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."

- Rumi

Courage

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

- Rumi

Reflection

"Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love."

- Rumi

Self-awareness

"If light is in your heart, you will find your way home."

- Rumi

Inspiration

"Only from the heart can you touch the sky."

- Rumi

Inspiration

"Love is not an emotion, it is your very existence."

- Rumi

Love

"When you let go of who you are, you become who you might be."

- Lao Tzu

Personal Growth

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

- James E. Faust

Gratitude

"You have within you more love than you could ever understand."

- Rumi

Love

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

- Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Self-awareness

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

- Rumi

Hope

"Your heart knows the way, run in that direction."

- Rumi

Motivation

"All doubt, despair and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love."

- Rumi

Love

"We are born of love: love is our mother."

- Rumi

Love

"This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are."

- Rumi

Inspiration

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

- Rumi

Inspiration

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there."

- Rumi

Inspiration

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

- Rumi

Hope

"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor."

- Rumi

Positivity

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

- Rumi

Love

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

- Rumi

Inspiration

"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you."

- Rumi

Inspiration

"There is a force within that gives you life. Seek that."

- Rumi

Inspiration

"Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?"

- Rumi

Inspiration

"Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots."

- Rumi

Inspiration

"I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think."

- Rumi

Joy

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

- Rumi

Connection to Earth

"Giving thanks for abundance is greater than the abundance itself."

- Rumi

Gratitude

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

- Rumi

Joy

"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal."

- Rumi

Service

"My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there."

- Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Spirituality

"Know that one day, your pain will become your cure."

- Rumi

Healing

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

- Rumi

Compassion

"Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation."

- Rumi

Love

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

- Rumi

Inner Peace

"Through love, thorns become roses."

- Rumi

Love

"When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray."

- Rumi

Faith

"You’ve seen my descent. Now watch my rising."

- Rumi

Inspiration

"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."

- Rumi

Love

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

- Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Love

"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."

- Jalal Ad-Din Rumi

Spirituality

"When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them."

- Rumi

Love

"silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation."

- Rumi

Spirituality

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

- Rumi Jalalud-Din

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