The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
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Rumi
Persian poet and Sufi mystic (Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī) who founded the Mevlevi order. Author of the Masnavi; lived 1207–1273 in Konya.
23 quotes
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
What you seek is seeking you.
Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
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.
The breezes at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
The moon stays bright when it does not avoid the night.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal.