Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi Quotes

When the focus turns inward, everything else is forgotten.

Rumi focus quotes focus focus focus on the self and focus becomes selfless. focus focus focus becomes about you and not about other people. Focus is applied in such a way that it becomes all about you instead of wanting to help others around the focus.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

Loneliness is a universal feeling and is impartial to your marital status and the number of people you surround yourself with. The Quotes mean that we have infinite power and knowledge hidden inside our subconscious minds. If asked properly the answer is always given.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

This quote is so true. In it, the rain is representative of what you can say to someone, and the thunder represents someone yelling. Those who believe that raising their voice will win them an argument... when in reality, it doesn't at all. You can easily out-yell someone and drown out the logical argument of the person who has kept their cool... but in the end, the person with the logic will undoubtedly win.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

You need to be moving towards something in life — a goal, a direction, or a destination. Don’t dwell on the details, just get started. Learnings from this quote are that we need to trust in ourselves and truth in something bigger than us. When we are ready and start, help comes from all over. It’s just that we need to be ready, bold, and start walking.

Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?

Prison is belief in ego. Escape from ego is the escape from prison. There is no freedom unless there is an awakening — which is a deep recognition of what ego is and a remembering that it is not you. Go deeper, to the truth within, and set yourself free. We continue tomorrow and each day after that.

We are born of love; love is our mother.

Some of us have an easy, light-hearted friendship with our mothers. Others feel only pain when they think of their moms. Some grew up without a mother, or with a mother unable to care for them properly. love your mom and always try to make her happy and promised yourself never allow any reason to make her cry.

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 Rumi is saying is we must learn to love ourselves before we try to love someone else. Humanly love is not true love as we have barriers such as expectations or conditions. When we love someone, we expect many things from them and if that person does not meet our expectations or starts disliking us, we lose that love for them. Love is UNCONDITIONAL and EVERLASTING.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

There will be people who will try to stop you from following your dreams and most will project their fears and limiting beliefs onto you. We are faced with so much noise in life that sometimes it’s easy to get lost in it. The key is to say no. Say no to the doubters — ignore them. Say no to fear, negativity and criticism — ignore them.