Rumi Quotes on Freedom
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi was a thirteenth-century Persian poet, jurist, and Sufi mystic, born in what is now Afghanistan and settling at Konya in Anatolia. This page collects quotes attributed to Rumi on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Rumi:
“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead, let life live through you.”
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“Our celestial spirit is free to eternity, Although for a short time we are imprisoned in forms of flesh.”
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 31, Diwan-i-Shams-i-Tabriz -
“'Tis slave-caressing thy love has practised, Else, where is the heart worthy of that love? Every heart that has slept one night in thine air Is like radiant day; thereby the air is illuminated.”
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 42, Diwan-i-Shams-i-Tabriz (Nicholson) -
“My soul is grown weary of Pharaoh and his tyranny, I desire the light of the countenance of Moses , son of ʿImran.”
A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations(1911) | p. 141, Diwan-i-Shams-i-Tabriz (Nicholson)