Jalaluddin Rumi

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

"Travel brings power and love back into your life."

"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly."

"The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love."

"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom"

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

"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."

"Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you."

"What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself. I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian nor Muslim,I am not from east or west, not from land or sea,not from the shafts of nature nor from the spheres of the firmament,not of the earth, not of water, not of air, not of fire. I am not from the highest heaven, not from this world,not from existence, not from being. I am not from India, not from China, not from Bulgar, not from Saqsin,not from the realm of the two Iraqs, not from the land of Khurasan. I am not from the world, not from beyond,not from heaven and not from hell. I am not from Adam, not from Eve, not from paradise and not from Ridwan. My place is placeless, my trace is traceless,no body, no soul, I am from the soul of souls. I have chased out duality, lived the two worlds as one. One I seek, one I know, one I see, one I call. He is the first, he is the last, he is the outer, he is the"

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

"It's your road, and yours alone.others may walk it with you,but no one can walk it for you."

"The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.”“In prayer all are equal."

"Your depression is connected to your insolenceand refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or womansteals from others every day--is a shoplifter!The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close."

"You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another."

"The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone."

"Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place."

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

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

"I love my friendsneither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case…Heart might stop. Mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets."

"If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home."