There are so many wonderful things the great Sufi poet, Jalaluddin Rumi can teach you about Love. And when I say Love, I am referring to that pure, truthful and precious love we all seek for – Love that can be found at the core of each of every one of us – and Love that you will hopefully find more of after reading these beautiful Rumi quotes.
37 Things Jalaluddin Rumi Can Teach You About Love
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1. Your soul is God’s lover.
“Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God’s lover, yet you worry what people are saying.” ~Jalaluddin Rumi
2. Love is the bridge between you and everything.
“Love is the bridge between you and everything.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
3. What you seek is seeking you
“What you seek is seeking you.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
4. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
“If you find me not within you, you will never find me. For I have been with you, from the beginning of me.”~ Jalaluddin Rumi
“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.”
“A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I’ve disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I’ve forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I’ve become a scholar. I’ve lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. I love myself…I love you. I love you…I love myself.”
5. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
6. Gamble everything for love.
“Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
7. Love calls – everywhere and always.
“Love calls – everywhere and always. We’re sky bound. Are you coming?” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
8. Love is the cure.
“Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
9. Life without Love is death.
“To live without you is to be robbed of love and what is life without it? To live without you is death to me, my love but some call it life.” ~Jalaluddin Rumi
10. Take someone who doesn’t keep score.
“Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
“Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free.”
11. A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
12. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
13. Your task is not to seek for love.
“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.” ― Jalaluddin Rumi
14. Be grateful for whoever comes your way.
“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
15. Pain can become your greatest ally.
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” ~Jalaluddin Rumi
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
16. Let go of thinking.
“Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
17. There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can’t hope.
“There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can’t hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
18. Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes.
“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
19. Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
“Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”~ Jalaluddin Rumi
20. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
21. Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”~ Jalaluddin Rumi
22. Raise your words, not your voice.
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
23. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
“Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
24. Love is our mother.
“We are born of love; Love is our mother.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
25. Through Love, all that is bitter will be sweet.
“Through Love, all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love, all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
26. The heart knows no boundaries.
“I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
27. Love is beyond words.
“However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations… Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers..” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
28. Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit.
“Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don’t give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
29. Let love be your companion.
“I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: ‘You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.’” ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
30. Crave a love so deep the ocean would be jealous.
“I crave a love so deep the ocean would be jealous.”
31. Don’t plant anything but love.
“With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.”
32. You are a lover of your own experience.
“You are a lover of your own experience … not of me … you turn to me to feel ur own emotion”
33. The gifts of lovers to one another testify to invisible love.
“The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.”
34. All fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love.
“All doubt, despair and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love.”
35. In the house of lovers, the music never stops.
“In the house of lovers, the music never stops, the walls are made of songs & the floor dances”
36. Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces
“I, you, he, she, we In the garden of mystic lovers, these are not true distinctions.”
37. Speak with the language of love.
“Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.”
And these are 37 of the many lessons Rumi can teach all of us about love. Is there one in particular that you loved most? You can share it in the comment section below 🙂
Bonus:
“You have no idea how hard I’ve looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What’s the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It’s no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I’ve brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.”
“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.”
“She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.”
“I searched for God among the Christians and on the Cross and therein I found Him not.
I went into the ancient temples of idolatry; no trace of Him was there.
I entered the mountain cave of Hira and then went as far as Qandhar but God I found not.
With set purpose I fared to the summit of Mount Caucasus and found there only ‘anqa’s habitation.
Then I directed my search to the Kaaba, the resort of old and young; God was not there even.
Turning to philosophy I inquired about him from ibn Sina but found Him not within his range.
I fared then to the scene of the Prophet’s experience of a great divine manifestation only a “two bow-lengths’ distance from him” but God was not there even in that exalted court.
Finally, I looked into my own heart and there I saw Him; He was nowhere else.”
“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
“An eye is meant to see things.
The soul is here for its own joy.
A head has one use: For loving a true love.
Feet: To chase after.
Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,
for learning what men have done and tried to do.
Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind
when it only wants to see why.
A lover is always accused of something.
But when he finds his love, whatever was lost
in the looking comes back completely changed.”
“You think because you understand ‘one’ you must also understand ‘two’, because one and one make two. But you must also understand ‘and’.”
“Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. ”
“I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.”
“When someone is counting out gold for you, don’t look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.”
“You are a volume in the divine book
A mirror to the power that created the universe
Whatever you want, ask it of yourself
Whatever you’re looking for can only be found
Inside of you”
“For ages you have come and gone
courting this delusion.
For ages you have run from the pain
and forfeited the ecstasy.
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
Although you appear in earthly form
Your essence is pure Consciousness.
You are the fearless guardian
of Divine Light.
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
When you lose all sense of self
the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish.
Lose yourself completely,
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
You descended from Adam, by the pure Word of God,
but you turned your sight
to the empty show of this world.
Alas, how can you be satisfied with so little?
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
Why are you so enchanted by this world
when a mine of gold lies within you?
Open your eyes and come —
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
11 Things You Should Remind Yourself Daily
You were born from the rays of God’s Majesty
when the stars were in their perfect place.
How long will you suffer from the blows
of a nonexistent hand?
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
You are a ruby encased in granite.
How long will you decieve Us with this outer show?
O friend, We can see the truth in your eyes!
So come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
After one moment with that glorious Friend
you became loving, radiant, and ecstatic.
Your eyes were sweet and full of fire.
Come, return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
Shams-e Tabriz, the King of the Tavern
has handed you an eternal cup,
And God in all His glory is pouring the wine.
So come! Drink!
Return to the root of the root
of your own soul.
Soul of all souls, life of all life – you are That.
Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving – you are That.
The road that leads to the City is endless;
Go without head and feet
and you’ll already be there.
What else could you be? – you are That.”
“Like This
If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting
will look, lift your face
and say,
Like this.
When someone mentions the gracefulness
of the nightsky, climb up on the roof
and dance and say,
Like this.
If anyone wants to know what “spirit” is,
or what “God’s fragrance” means,
lean your head toward him or her.
Keep your face there close.
Like this.
When someone quotes the old poetic image
about clouds gradually uncovering the moon,
slowly loosen knot by knot the strings
of your robe.
Like this.
If anyone wonders how Jesus raised the dead,
don’t try to explain the miracle.
Kiss me on the lips.
Like this. Like this.
When someone asks what it means
to “die for love,” point
here.
If someone asks how tall I am, frown
and measure with your fingers the space
between the creases on your forehead.
This tall.
The soul sometimes leaves the body, the returns.
When someone doesn’t believe that,
walk back into my house.
Like this.
When lovers moan,
they’re telling our story.
Like this.
I am a sky where spirits live.
Stare into this deepening blue,
while the breeze says a secret.
Like this.
When someone asks what there is to do,
light the candle in his hand.
Like this.
How did Joseph’s scent come to Jacob?
Huuuuu.
How did Jacob’s sight return?
Huuuu.
A little wind cleans the eyes.
Like this.
When Shams comes back from Tabriz,
he’ll put just his head around the edge
of the door to surprise us
Like this.”
~love, Luminita💫
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Luminita is the Founder and Editor in Chief of PurposeFairy.com and also the author of 15 Things You Should Give Up to Be Happy: An Inspiring Guide to Discovering Effortless Joy. For more details check out the 15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy Book Page.
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FAQs
What did Rumi said about love? ›
Rumi Quotes. 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.
What does Rumi teach us? ›Rumi speak of Love in much of his poetry, and there is some equation of love with the divine, as well. His works help the discussion of the concept of God, and the definition of Love. Be silent that the Lord who gave thee language may speak, For as He fashioned a door and lock, He has also made a key.
What does there are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground mean? ›The “hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground” serves as a reminder of the myriad options for reflecting and sharing your unique gifts in all areas of your life.
What does the minute I heard my first love story mean? ›With this poem Rumi seems to have tamed love, but how did he do it? "The minute I heard my first love story," is an initial line that invites us to join Rumi in his past with a situation we all share and know well. Reading that line, we think of our own introduction to love stories and happily ever afters.
What are the stages of love by Rumi? ›The seven stages are namely hub (attraction), uns (infatuation), ishq (love), akidat (trust/reverence), ibadat (worship), junoon (madness) followed by maut (death). Satrangi Re, in some way or the other, whether though lyrics or the choreography, gloriously portrays these stages of love and charms us along.
How Rumi changed my life? ›Soon, Rumi's poetry became a lifeline, allowing me to survive both my own personal insanity and the political insanity to come. My manic, psychotic break from the rest of the world's notion of reality was clinical and terrifying, but it started out soulful and electrifying.
What is the quote about teaching Rumi? ›“I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.”
What is the main message of kiss the ground? ›Kiss the Ground's central message is that by “farming like nature,” we have the potential to harness the photosynthetic power of plants to draw carbon back down from the atmosphere into the soil.
What does kneeling on the ground mean? ›The gesture originated in a 2016 American football game, during which Colin Kaepernick and his 49ers teammate Eric Reid chose to kneel during the playing of the US national anthem, to call attention to the issues of racial inequality and police brutality.
What does laid the kneel mean? ›knelt ˈnelt or kneeled; kneeling. intransitive verb. : to position the body so that one or both knees rest on the floor.
What does first love really mean? ›
first love (plural first loves) (literally) One's first experience of the feeling of romantic love. quotations ▼ (by extension) The first person to be the object of one's romantic affection.
What is the quote from First Comes love? ›“First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in a baby carriage.” So the old playground rhyme goes. These days, however, many couples are taking a long time getting from step 1 to step 2.
What was the quote on love story? ›Oliver Barrett IV : Love means never having to say you're sorry.
What is the strongest way to say I love you? ›- I am here for you… always.
- I'm yours.
- I'm the luckiest person in the world.
- We are meant to be.
- I'd do anything to make you smile.
- You are my soulmate.
- My heart calls out for you.
- I like the way you make me feel, even when you are not around.
A truly loving relationship should have communication, affection, trust, appreciation, and mutual respect. If you see these signs, and the relationship is a healthy, honest, nurturing one, you would likely consider your relationship one of true love. Another vital element of real or true love is individuality.
What is the best message for love? ›- You make me forget how to breathe.
- Nobody is perfect, but you're so close it's scary 👌👸
- All I need is you right here.
- I love you more than I did yesterday but not more than I will tomorrow ❤
The first year of the relationship is the hardest stage, and even when you're living together, you still discover new things about each other every day. How to Survive: The key to getting past the discovery stage is also discovery. The discovery of your partner's imperfections and your imperfections as well.
What are the 4 principles of love? ›Principle 1: Enhance Your Love Maps. Principle 2: Nurture Your Fondness and Admiration. Principle 3: Turn Toward Each Other Instead of Away. Principle 4: Let Your Partner Influence You.
What are the 4 concepts of love? ›The Greek language distinguishes four different kinds of love: Philia, Eros, Storge and Agape. They all have a beautiful description of different kinds of love, and understanding each is a sure way to help spouses improve their relationships.
What do most mind do according to Rumi? ›According to Rumi, a man loses his chance of humming when he refuses to live in the present. Most minds do not live in the present and get stuck to a reasonable plan; most minds abruptly turn and weaken the chance of humming.
What does Rumi say about change? ›
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― Rumi.
Why is Rumi so important? ›Rūmī was a great Sufi mystic and poet in the Persian language, famous for his lyrics and for his didactic epic Mas̄navī-yi Maʿnavī (“Spiritual Couplets”), which widely influenced mystical thought and literature throughout the Muslim world.
What is the best love quote by Rumi? ›“If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself.” ~ Rumi. Self-love is the foundation of all love, because we radiate love from the inside and pour it out onto others.
What are 5 good love quotes? ›- “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – ...
- “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. ...
- “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.” – ...
- “Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.” –
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine. Through love, all pain will turn to medicine. "Rumi & Self Psychology".
What does Rumi say about silence? ›'When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues,' says Rumi, 'Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. ' Through silence, Rumi reaches a level of consciousness where he loses all his mundane identities.
What is the quote about Rumi grateful? ›Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful. Persist in gratitude, and you will slowly become one with the Sun of Love, and Love will shine through you its all-healing joy.
What is the question quotes by Rumi? ›Quote by Rumi: “Look for the answer inside your question.”
What is the best Rumi quotes on self love? ›- Actually, your soul and mine are the same, we appear and disappear in each other.
- Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. ...
- Raise your words not your voice. ...
- Know that one day, your pain will become your cure.
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How does the poem define love? ›
As Lines so Loves oblique may well Themselves in every Angle greet: But ours so truly Parallel, Though infinite can never meet. Therefore the Love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debarrs, Is the Conjunction of the Mind, And Opposition of the Stars.
What does the quote true love mean? ›“True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.”
What is the quote about loving yourself before loving others? ›You have to learn to love yourself before you can love someone else. Because it's only when we love ourselves that we feel worthy of someone else's love.
What is love in one word? ›1 tenderness, fondness, predilection, warmth, passion, adoration. 2 liking, inclination, regard, friendliness.
What is the deep meaning of love? ›1. a deep and tender feeling of affection for or attachment or devotion to a person or persons. 2. an expression of one's love or affection.
What is the classic definition of love? ›Describing love in the famous poetic interpretation in 1 Corinthians, he wrote, "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
What is love and how does it feel? ›In the first rush of being in love, you might feel completely dedicated to your partner, ready to do anything and everything to help them through a tough spot or even just make their lives a little easier. Empathy and your fast-growing attachment can fuel your desire to be there for them and help them however possible.
What is the main theme of definition of love? ›In his poem 'The Definition of Love' (1681), Andrew Marvell argues that love is dictated entirely by fate and that humans have very little control over it. The speaker, perpetually isolated from his beloved, claims his love is rare and divine, even… Content verified by subject matter experts.
What are signs of true love? ›- You feel safe with them. ...
- They listen. ...
- They acknowledge your differences instead of trying to change you. ...
- You can communicate easily. ...
- They encourage you to do your own thing. ...
- You trust each other. ...
- They make an effort. ...
- You know you can collaborate or compromise.
“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.” “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” “The more one judges, the less one loves.” “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”