My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know.
RumiRead
All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote suggests that our desires can lead to restlessness or unhealthiness, but by embracing our desires instead of resisting them, we can find peace and healing.
Rumi's quote highlights the paradox of desire and fulfillment. It implies that our constant yearning—for stillness or health—can create restlessness and dissatisfaction. Instead of suppressing these desires, we should embrace them without attachment, allowing love and healing to manifest naturally. The essence of the message lies in the understanding that by surrendering to our genuine needs and desires, rather than controlling them, we can achieve the tranquility and well-being we seek.
Themes
DesireStillnessHealthLoveHealing
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about finding peace in chaos.
More from Rumi
All quotes →The Law of Wonder rules my life at last, _x000D_ ...I burn each second of my life to Love _x000D_ Each second of my life burns out in Love _x000D_ In each leaping second Love lives afresh.
RumiRead
Lovers have heartaches _x000D_ That can't be cured by drugs _x000D_ Or sleep, _x000D_ Or games, _x000D_ But only by seeing their beloved.
RumiRead
Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.
RumiRead
Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God _x000D_ manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of _x000D_ the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and _x000D_ the leaf.
RumiRead
Come on sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me
RumiRead
Similar quotes
Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.
Dwight D. EisenhowerRead
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Ann RichardsRead
It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.
Michel De MontaigneRead
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert EinsteinRead
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
Madeleine L'EngleRead
I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
Vladimir NabokovRead