Shams al-Tabriz was eccentric, nomadic, and operated beyond the norms. He served as a spiritual teacher and a friend to Rumi. He changed Rumi. He was the reason why Rumi had a change of heart and became the poet that we know today.
According to stories, Rumi was Shams mission. He was the companion that Shams longed to meet.The companion who he can share his wisdom and knowledge with.When the two met,they clicked and became really close.Due to their closeness and the profound change that Shams has brought to Rumi's life,many people were envious and some even hated their relationship. Shams was killed by the youngest son of Rumi but there were accounts of people seeing him in India.
Whether he really was killed or not,his disappearance left Rumi grieving and heartbroken.Because of the loneliness, Rumi turned to poetry. He wrote poems of love, God, truth, and life. He became a poet.
Rumi’s quotes connect with people from different cultures and times,sharing wisdom that goes beyond words.His thoughts on finding inner peace capture the true essence of our soul’s journey.
Here are some of the most famous rumi quotes on life that inspire and uplift, encouraging you to explore your heart and mind.Take a look:
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.
This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.
Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
If the foot of the trees were not tied to the earth, they would be pursuing me. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your myth.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
What you seek is seeking you
Those Who Don’t Feel This Love
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.