Rumi Quotes

The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why.

I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway.

It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.

You gave me back the paradise That I thought I lost for good You helped me find the reasons why It took me by surprise that you understood You knew all along What I never wanted to say Until I learned to love myself I was never ever lovin' anybody else.

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are.

Love is never outside ourselves; love is within us.

Love is who we are without our stories.

You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love.

Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.

When you do not require a person to show up as you imagine you need them to be, then you can drop expectation. Then you love them exactly as they are. Yet this can only happen when you love your Self exactly as you are

Love your self's self where it lives.

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.

We do not escape our boundaries or our innermost being. We do not change. It is true we may be transformed, but we always walk within our boundaries, within the marked-off circle.

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.