Rumi Quotes

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.

Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience.

I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

I feel like I got a ticket to go to another planet and I'm moving there and there's no turning back, and I don't know if I'm going to like that other planet or have friends there.

Ain't it funny how a moment could just change your life, and you don't want to face what's wrong or right. Ain't it strange how fate can play a part, in the story of your heart.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

It was funny, he reflected later, how one’s life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the next it’s simply ... not

Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled with joy as I bring the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

Janie blinks and leans against the wall, just in case. But it's no one's dream. It's just the end of some things. And the beginning of others.

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.

We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.

When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something.

What emerges from the silence is the deafening sound of an old world disintegrating.

In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.