10 lines from Rumi's work that define love and worship like no other

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Apr 24, 2025

Aakanksha Sharma

Quotes by Rumi

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, also known as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet, scholar, and Sufi mystic whose words resonate with people even today. Be it the trials of love, the belief in God, or devotion, Rumi wrote about it all. Here are 10 famous lines by him.

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Removing the barriers to love

“Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” - This is the perfect line about love and worship, for it tells people that love is not something external, but rather an internal state.

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The neutral love ground

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.” - Another beautiful line, this one asks people to rise above judgment and meet in a state where love will flourish.

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On self-change

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” - This line told people the importance of self-reflection and surrender in the path of love and spiritual growth.

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The partner we seek

“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.” - Another beautiful line, this one defines love as eternal, moving, and as a fragment in us all along.

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On true joy

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” - A line that blends love and worship is this one. It tells people that when you love like you worship, and worship like love, you feel something change in your heart.

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On believing

“Knock, And He'll open the door. Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun. Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens, Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.” - A line that showed people the power in worship, and love, is this one.

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On love and sleepless nights

“When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.” - A line describing love and worship in its purest sense is this one.

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The changes of love and worship

“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.” - In the light of both a partner and a God, we learn who we truly are, and love becomes art.

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The goodbyes in life

“Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.” - Another beautiful line, this one perfectly shows that both a lover and God are forever within us, and there is no separation from them.

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The beauty of love

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” - A mix of love and worship, this line summarises how we kneel and bow to both, and are equally invested in both.

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