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
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote suggests that our journey through life is interconnected with others who guide us.
Rumi's quote reflects on the nature of existence and the relationships we form during our lives. It implies that those who lead or influence us in our journey are responsible for guiding us back home, whether that means a physical place or a state of being. It highlights the importance of connection and accountability in our experiences and emphasizes that our paths are often shaped by our interactions with others.
Themes
JourneyConnectionsRelationshipsLifeResponsibility
In practice
Example use cases
In a reflection during a graduation speech, one might quote Rumi to emphasize the importance of mentors in guiding one’s path.
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
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
J. G. BallardRead
Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you’ll be in some kind of sit-down action.
Malcolm XRead
When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.
RajneeshRead
You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.
Yevgeny ZamyatinRead
The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
Patrick HenryRead
The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.
Gilbert K. ChestertonRead