44 Great Aphorisms from Rumi

1. "Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times. Come, yet again, come, come."
2. "The wound is the place where the light enters you."
3. "Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop."
4. "If light is in your heart, you will find your way home."
5. "You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."
6. "The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear."
7. "The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."
8. "Love is the bridge between you and everything."
9. "Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."

10. "The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."
11. "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
12. "You have within you more love than you could ever understand."
13. "Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
14. "The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorn."
15. "Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees."


16. "What you seek is seeking you."
17. "The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart."
18. "The soul has been given its own ears to hear things that the mind does not understand." 19. "Travel brings power and love back into your life."
20. "The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore."
21. "The most important step is the step you take right now."
22. "Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place."
23. "The cure for pain is in the pain."


24. "Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond." 25. "The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth."
26. "Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun."
27. "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
28. "The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind."
29. "The heart is the thousand-stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love."
30. "The moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door will open."
31. "Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation."
32. "The lamps are different, but the light is the same."
33. "As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears."


34. "The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die."
35. "The wound is where the light enters you."
36. "When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."
37. "The human being has a unique place among God's creation. 'I breathed into him of My Spirit,' God says."
38. "The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."
39. "We are born of love; Love is our mother."
40. "The lion is most handsome when looking for food."
41. "When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it." 42. "The quest for Love changes us. There is no seeker among those who search for Love who has not matured on the way. The moment you start looking for Love, you start to change within and without."
43. "The only thing we have to do is breathe, everything else is optional."
44. "The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are."