20 Powerful Lessons From "Rumi" to Transform Your Mind Completely

20 Powerful Lessons From "Rumi" to Transform Your Mind Completely


Rūmī, in full Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Persian: جلال‌الدین محمد رومی),

also called by the honorific Mawlānā

Was the greatest Sufi mystic and poet in the Persian language.

Here are 20 thoughts of Rumi That totally changes your Mind:


1. “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.”

- Rumi


2. “Stop acting so small. 

You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”

- Rumi


3. “What you seek is seeking you.”

- Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi


4. “Yesterday I was clever, 

so I wanted to change the world. 

Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

- Rumi


5. “You were born with wings,

why prefer to crawl through life?”

- Rumi


6. “Don't be satisfied with stories,

how things have gone with others. 

Unfold your own myth.”

- Rumi


7. “Raise your words, not voice. 

It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

- Rumi


8. “silence is the language of god,

all else is poor translation.”

- Rumi


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

Help someone's soul heal.”

- Rumi


10. “Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, 

that degrade you back towards disease and death.”

- Rumi


11. “Everything in the universe is within you. 

Ask all from yourself.”

- Rumi


12. “Where there is ruin, 

there is hope for a treasure.”

- Rumi


13. “I want to sing like the birds sing, 

not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

- Rumi


14. “There is a candle in your heart, 

ready to be kindled.

There is a void in your soul, 

ready to be filled.

You feel it, don't you?”

- Rumi


15. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”

- Rumi


16. “Be melting snow.

Wash yourself of yourself.”

- Rumi


17. “And you? 

When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

- Rumi


18. “Wherever you are, and whatever you do, 

be in love.”

- Rumi


19. "The inspiration you seek is already within you. 

Be silent and listen."

- Rumi


20. "Don't grieve. 

Anything you lose comes round in another form."

- Rumi


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