Profound Lessons from Rumi

Profound Lessons from Rumi

Rumi was a 13^th century Persian poet and Sufi mystic who believed that universal love was the cornerstone of spiritual living. This fascinating video highlights the major lessons we can learn from his teachings. Some of the lessons are as follows:

Never Give up on yourself

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart so that fresh green leaves can grow in their place. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

When you go through a hard period, when everything seems to oppose you, when you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, Never Give Up! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

Dance when you’re broken open.

Dance  if you’ve torn the bandage off.

Dance in the middle of the fighting.

Dance in your blood.

Dance when you’re perfectly free.

Stop Acting So Small

Do You Know Who You Are?

You are a Manuscript of a Divine Letter.

You are a Mirror Reflecting a Noble Face.

This universe is not outside of you. Look inside of yourself; everything that you want, you’re already that. You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust.

You were born with Wings. You are not meant for Crawling, so don’t. You have Wings. Learn to use them and fly.

You have the energy of the Sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

Live your life in a way that makes sense to you, not to them.

Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes, because for those who love with their heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep you heart open through everything your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.

You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

Let Go Who You Are and Become Who You Might Be

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

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

You don’t have to know the Path. Just take the first step. As you start to walk out on the Way, the Way appears.

Do what you Love and do it with Love.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let the cast a shadow over the moon of you heart. Let go of thinking.

Silence is the language of God. All else is poor translation.