Quotes: Rūmī

"Recognize that 'unlearning' is the highest form of learning."

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet 

Quotes: Rūmī

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

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet

Quotes: Rūmī

"A wound is the place where the Light enters you."

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet 

Source: Ausma Zehanat Khan. Among the Ruins. New York: Minotaur Books, 2017; p. 21.

via: Aboveground Art Supplies Knapsack Sketchbook 2020, 2024, p. 40. 

Quotes: Rūmī

"Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you love. It will not lead you astray."

 –– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet 

Quotes: Rūmī

"If all you can do is crawl, start crawling."

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet 

 via: Day In & Day Out Notebook, 2018, p. 23.

Quotes: Rūmī

"What you seek is seeking you." 

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet 

via: Anvil Sketchbook 2018, p. 59.

Quotes: Rūmī

"Respond to every call that excites your spirit." 

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet 

via: Sketchbook 26, 2015, p. 32.  

Quotes: Rūmī

"Respond to every call that excites your spirit." 

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet 

via: Sketchbook 26, 2015, p. 10.

Quotes: Rūmī

 "Let silence take you to the core of life."

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet 

via: Sketchbook 22, 2014, p. 93.

Quotes: Rūmī

"Don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous."

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet 

via: Sketchbook 20, 2013, p. 134

Quotes: Rūmī

"Respond to every call that excites your spirit."

 –– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet 

via: Sketchbook 20, 2012, p. 45

Creativity quotes: Rūmī

"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet 

Quotes 251: Rumi

"This is now. Now is, 

all there is. Don't wait for Then,

strike the spark, light the fire. 

Sit at the Beloved's table, 

feast with gusto, drink your fill. 

then dance 

the way branches of jasmine and cypress 

dance in a spring wind. 

The green earth 

is your cloth; 

tailor your robe 

with dignity and grace.

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet 

via Sketchbook #2, p. 1

Quotes 48: Rumi

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there."

–– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet

Quotes 12: Rumi

 "Life is a balance of holding on and letting go." 

–– Rumi (1207-1273), Persian poet, theologian and Sufi mystic

Quotes: Rumi

"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you." –– Rumi (1207-1273), Persian poet, theologian and Sufi mystic

Rumi: Daily practice

Submit to a daily practice.
Your loyalty to that
is a ring on the  door.


Keep knocking, and the joy inside
will eventually open a window
and look out to see who's there.


--Rumi

Rumi: Forty early mornings

A new moon teaches gradualness

and deliberation and how one gives birth

to oneself slowly. Patience with small details

makes perfect a large work, like the universe.

What nine months of attention does for an embryo

forty early mornings will do 

for your gradually growing wholeness.

Rumi

The Illuminated Rumi