Rumi quotes on love inspire people all around the world. But what is so special about his thoughts on love? The thing is Rumi shows not only the necessity to create a special connection between two people but also to learn how to love from within and for oneself.
Rumi Path
Rumi was born in Persia in 1207. The father of the future poet was a very well-known lawyer, theologian, and preacher. He had to flee from prosecution for freethinking views, from which we can conclude that the ability and the desire for freedom were passed to his son by inheritance. However, the boy grew curious and received a great education, and not only humanitarian (legal and theological), he also studied the Sciences.
Rumi’s worldview was formed under the influence of Islamic religious doctrine. He believed in the immortality of the soul, and atheism defined this as “bestiality”.
After his father’s death (1231), the poet took his position as a court scientist. Years of wandering, unsettled Iranian social life, and other circumstances finally made him a Sufi pantheist, which led to a conflict with the clergy.
Sufi Mystic
Rumi Jalaluddin achieved success in Islamic theology, jurisprudence, and Sufi mysticism. Many of his works have had a huge impact on the culture of the ancient Middle East due to the ability of this outstanding person to destroy the established barriers, the ability to look at life from an unusual angle and have his own opinion on a variety of issues of concern to humanity today.
There are philosophical and ascetic ideas in his poems. There are 18 Rumi quotes on love below that will give you some idea of his art of writing. Perhaps, they will cause interest and will encourage you to familiarize yourself with his poems and meditate on the deeper meaning of them.
Rumi Quotes On Love
#1
“Love is an emerald.
Its brilliant light wards off dragons
On this treacherous path.”
#2
“A life without love is of no account. Don’t ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! The universe turns differently when fire loves water.”
#3
“You cannot hide love
Love will get on its way
To the heart of someone you love
Far or near, it goes home
To where it belongs
To the heart of lovers.”
#4
“You will learn by reading,
But you will understand with LOVE.”
#5
“Whenever we manage to love without expectations,
calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.”
#6
“This is love: to fly toward a secret, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
#7
“Love is the house of God and you are living in that house.”
#8
“In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that light becomes this art.”
#9
“Whenever we can manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.”
#10
“Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Is the ground worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome’s passionate murmur.”
#11
“I’m in love!
Your advice, what are they?
Love has poisoned me!
Your remedies, what are they?
I hear them shout: “fast, Bind him feet!”
But if my heart that has gone mad!
Those strings on my feet
What is the point?”
#12
“Love is the cure,
for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain
until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.”
#13
“The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”
#14
“Love is not an emotion, it’s your very existence.”
#15
“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.”
#16
“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.”
#17
“To Love is to be God.
Never will a Lover’s chest
feel any sorrow.
Never will a Lover’s robe
be touched by mortals.
Never will a Lover’s body
be found buried in the earth.
To Love is to be God.”
#18
“In your light, I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”