Where the Light Enters

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

“What you seek is seeking you.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

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

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“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.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“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.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“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.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

“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.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

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

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

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

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

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

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

“My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“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.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
― Jalaluddin Rumi