Do you know who Rumi is? We refer to Yalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273), that he was a great Persian poet, he was an Islamic scholar, theologian, mystic. It had a great significance for anyone who could know of his wisdom, no matter his origin or his religion ... to understand Rumi's phrases and thoughts, it was to change the way of seeing life ... for the better.
Yalal ad-Din Rumi composed more than 50.000 lines of poems during his lifetime that were inspiring throughout his life and after his death. Imagine how inspiring they are that even today, hundreds of years after his death, his work continues to leave its mark on the hearts of the people who discover it.
Life goes so fast that we forget to reflect on what it means to be alive. The days are full of difficulties that sometimes make us forget how wonderful simple existence can be. A whole life is just a moment in the universe, and it is worth living it to the fullest.
Rumi phrases
Do not miss these phrases by Rumi, this great poet and wise man of all times because once you read them you will realize how useful they can be in your life, especially if you have to go through adversity at some point or if you are going through obstacles of any kind now.
- Your task is not to search for love, but to search and find the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
- Do not be satisfied with stories, how things have gone for others. Reveal your own myth.
- Each fragrant flower is telling us the secrets of the Universe.
- Take one who does not keep his accounts. That he does not want to be rich, nor is he afraid of losing, that he has no interest in his personality: he is free.
- Love is the warmth of the light of Being. That is why love encompasses everything. Love is the warmth and radiance of Oneness. Love is the essence of Oneness.
- The heart of man is a musical instrument, it contains great music. Asleep, but it is there, waiting for the appropriate moment to be interpreted, expressed, sung, danced. And it is through love that the moment comes.
- Silence is the language of God, everything else is a poor translation.
- To change, a person must face the dragon of his appetites with another dragon, the life energy of the soul.
- Put your thoughts to sleep, don't let them cast a shadow on the moon of your heart.
- Yesterday I was smart so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I want to change myself.
- Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
- Wounds are the place where the light enters you.
- Beyond the ideas of good and evil there is a field. There we will meet. When the soul lies down on that grass, the world is too full to speak.
- Be a lamp, a lifeboat or a ladder. Help heal someone's soul. Leave your house like a shepherd.
- Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
- Transform your entire body into vision, make yourself look.
- What can I do if you ignore your own worth?
- Don't fall in love with the bones, look for the spirit.
- A person is not in love if love does not illuminate his soul.
- Empty yourself of worry. Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide? Move out of the tangle of fear.
- Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.
- These pains that you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
- You must tear down parts of a building to restore it, and the same goes for a life that has no spirit.
- Here is a letter for everyone. Open it. He says; it lives.
- Become heaven. Use an ax against the prison wall. Escape.
- Each has been manufactured for a particular job, and the desire for that job has been placed in every heart.
- Beauty surrounds us but normally we need to walk in a garden to know it.
- Wear gratitude as a blanket and it will feed every corner of your life.
- When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving within you, a joy. When the action comes from another place, the feeling disappears.
- Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
- The beauty of the heart is the lasting beauty: your lips provide the water of life to drink.
- Who does not see the hand that is writing, assumes that the result comes from the movement of the pen.
- Lovers don't finally meet somewhere; they are inside each other all the time.
- God has servants clothed in wisdom, knowledge, and grace, even though people lack the vision to see them.
- The temple of love is not love itself. True love is the treasure, not the walls around it.
- Beware that the adornment takes you from the right path, and that false imagination throws you into the well.
- When beauty dwells in the dark valleys of the night, love comes and finds a heart tangled in the hair.
- A whole life without love does not count, love is the water of life, Drink it with your soul and heart!
- The movement of the waves, day and night, comes from the sea, you see the waves, but how strange! You don't see the sea.
- The way the night meets the moon, I know that with me. Be the rose closest to the thorn that I am.
- This is love: flying into a secret sky, causing a hundred veils to fall every moment. Letting go of life first. Finally take a step without feet.
- How can there be tiredness when passion is present? Oh, do not sigh heavily from fatigue: Seek passion, seek it, seek it!
- If you are looking for pearls, be a diver; the diver must have many virtues: he must put his rope and his life in the hands of his friend, hold his breath and dive headfirst.
- Sincerity goes straight, simple, without folds, simple, without any ulterior motive; he seeks "what is" and only "what is" not himself in "what is."
- On the day of your death your physical senses will disappear. Do you have the spiritual light to illuminate your heart? When your eyes are filled with dust in the grave Will your grave shine brightly?
