Rumi Wisdom Quotes
What did Rumi have to say about wisdom? Quite a lot, as it turns out. Here are 15 of the best Rumi wisdom quotes, drawn from our full Rumi collection.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I will meet you there.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.