Rumi: 30 Love Quotes

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Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī, or simply Rumi, was a 13th-century poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic who was born in Greater Khorasan in present-day Afghanistan or Tajikistan on September 30, 1207, and died on December 17, 1273, at the age of 66, in Konya. His works are primarily composed in Persian, and his influence transcends ethnic divisions and national borders.

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Rumi is known as a preacher of love because of his teachings and writings that focused on spiritual and romantic love, because of the following:

  • Spiritual love: Rumi believed that people should love God and that this love would help them to connect with Him and become better versions of themselves.
  • Romantic love: Rumi wrote about the beauty of romantic love and the passion and desire that comes with it.
  • Sufi Path of Love: Rumi followed the Sufi path, which is a mystical tradition that focuses on the inner dimension of Islam and the pursuit of love and spiritual growth.
  • Poems and writings: Rumi wrote many poems and stories that were centered on love and its beauty, and these works have been read and studied for centuries.
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Some poems by Rumi:

  • “Be Lost in the Call”: A poem that includes the line, “Lord, said David, since you do not need us, why did you create a world?”
  • “I Am Wind, You Are Fire”: A poem that includes the lines, “If a tree could wander and move with foot and wings! It would not suffer the axe blows and not the pain of saws!”
  • “This Marriage”: A poem that includes the lines, “May this marriage be blessed. May it be sweet milk, this marriage, like wine and halvah. May this marriage offer fruit and shade like the date palm”
  • “This World Which Is Made of Our Love for Emptiness”: A poem that includes the lines, “Praise to the emptiness that blanks out existence. Existence: This place made from our love for that emptiness!”
  • “The drum of the realization of the promise is beating”: A poem that includes the lines, “The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?”

Here are 30 quotes about love from Rumi:

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  1. “Love rests on no foundation. It’s an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.”
  2. “Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.”
  3. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
  4. “Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.”
  5. “Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.”
  6. “In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
  7. “We are born of love; Love is our mother.”
  8. “Let your Teacher be Love itself.”
  9. “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.”
  10. “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
  11. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
  12. “I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.”
  13. “Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.”
  14. “Love is the water of life. Drink it down with heart and soul.”
  15. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
  16. “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”
  17. “The heart knows a thousand ways to speak.”
  18. “I belong to no religion. My religion is love. My heart is my temple.”
  19. “Be a sweet, melodic song to everyone and to everything!”
  20. “Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
  21. “Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”
  22. “My soul is my guide.”
  23. “Love is the water of life. Drink it down with heart and soul.”
  24. “Shine like the Universe is Yours.”
  25. “Stop Acting so small. You are the Universe in ecstatic motion.”
  26. “There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.”
  27. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
  28. “Be with those who help your being.”
  29. “Everything in the Universe is within you. Ask all of yourself.”
  30. “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

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