Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

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Quotes...

• “The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.”
• “What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.”
• “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
• “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
• “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
• “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
• “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”
• “Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”
• “Reason is powerless in the expression of love.”
• “Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.”
• “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

• “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
• “The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.”
• “Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds.”
• “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”
• “It’s your road, and yours alone, others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”
• “Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.”
• “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears”
• “The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.”
• “If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”
• “This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are.”
  
• “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.”
  

Poems...

Quietness
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now.

On the turn
I am so small I can barely be seen.
How can this great love be inside me?
Look at your eyes. They are small,
But they see enormous things.

All rivers at once
What is the body? Endurance.
What is love? Gratitude.
What is hidden in our chests? Laughter.
What else? Compassion.

Unfold your own myth
But don’t be satisfied with stories,
How things have gone with others.
Unfold your own myth,
Without complicated explanation,
So everyone will understand the passage,
We have opened you.

“The very center of your heart is where life begins – the most beautiful place on earth.”

Quote by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi