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
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of self-reflection and removing internal obstacles to experiencing love.
Rumi suggests that rather than searching for love outside of ourselves, we should look inward and identify the fears or barriers we have constructed that prevent us from truly accepting and experiencing love. By addressing these internal issues, we can open ourselves up to the love that is already available to us.
Themes
LoveSelf-ReflectionBarriersAcceptanceRumi
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a relationship workshop to encourage participants to explore their inner challenges.
More from Rumi
All quotes βThe 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
She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game
F. Scott FitzgeraldRead
I get so worried about girls with body image stuff And I feel like I have been able to have a fun career and be an on-camera talent and be someone who has boyfriends and love interests and wears nice clothes and those kinds of things without having to be an emaciated stick. And it is possible to do it. In life, you don't have to be that way and you can have a great life, a fun life, and a fulfilling love life.
Mindy KalingRead
And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
J. R. R. TolkienRead
Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over its names. Without a supple vocabulary, we can't even talk or think about it directly.
Diane AckermanRead
Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant.
Paulo CoelhoRead
Love is the strongest power there is.
J. K. RowlingRead