Producer: Mehak Pal Editor: Aparna Singh
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi aka Rumi was one of the greatest Sufi poets of the 13th century. Here are the top 10 quotes on love, life and motivation by Rumi.
"Life is a balance between holding on and letting go."
"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
"I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted away."
"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
"You are searching the world for treasure but the real treasure is yourself."
"One of the marvels of the world is the sight of a soul sitting in a prison with the key in its hand."
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
"Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form."
"The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you."