13 From Rumi (quotes)

Tim Anderson
2 min readJul 29, 2023
rumi, love, patience, poetry, intimacy
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Here are a few quotes from Rumi. Read each one and linger on it for a few moments. Then, take one with you to be your guide for the day. Which will you choose. Me? I like #10…

13 From Rumi

1. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”

2. “Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun and immerse in the sea.”

3. “Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”

4. “With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.”

5. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

6. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

7. “In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.”

8. “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”

9. “You have to keep breaking your heart, until it opens.”

10. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

11. “Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open.”

12. “Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”

13. “The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.”

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