Rumi Quotes

When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.

I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

Time moves along at its own pace for as long as we are on this planet, and then some. So why try to beat it anymore? Maybe it's better to meet time head on and chill ourselves out so we can exist in harmony with the passing days.

The Dalai Lama has taught me that the best way to live life is to try and avoid desire. Desire is really the basic source of unhappiness.

Life is all about balance and following what the universe provides for you.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.

Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient we try to get away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow, later, and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the rest of our lives running away from it or letting it run us. But the only place you'll ever meet the real is now-here.

Learn to become still, and take your attention away from what you don't want

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

I'm very happy with my life. I am what I am. I don't worry about anything that I can't control. That's a really good lesson in life.

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control.

I just hope that as I get older, I calm down and enjoy the moment, enjoy the great gifts that God has given me.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.