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Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes
10 sourced quotes from Jalaluddin Rumi across Sufism.
“You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“What you seek is seeking you.”
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.”
“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.”
“I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I have been knocking from the inside.”
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”