21 December 2025

Week 2025-50: Rumi - Collected Quotes

"I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my soul." (Rumi)

"Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots." (Rumi)

"Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less." (Rumi)

"Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full."(Rumi)

"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder." (Rumi)

"The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things." (Rumi)

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." (Rumi)

"With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love." (Rumi)

"With love you don’t bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face." (Rumi)

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