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Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes

13th-century Persian Sufi poet (1207–1273). His Masnavi is one of the most-quoted spiritual works in any language.

10 sourced quotes from Jalaluddin Rumi across Sufism.

“You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”

Masnavi · 13th century Sufism

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

Masnavi Sufism

“What you seek is seeking you.”

attributed Sufism

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”

A Great Wagon · Masnavi Sufism

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

attributed Sufism

“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.”

attributed Sufism

“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.”

Masnavi · paraphrased Coleman Barks Sufism

“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.”

Masnavi Sufism

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

attributed Sufism

“Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

attributed Sufism