This month, we are celebrating Poetry at Literati Pulp. Here are the top 10 quotes from the Poet Rumi, by popular vote*.

*Selected from GoodReads highest rated quotes. 

“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.”
7,116 Likes

“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.”
7,020 Likes

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
5,558 Likes

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
4,729 Likes

“What you seek is seeking you.”
4,452 Likes

“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.”
4,153 Likes

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
4,038 Likes

“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.”
3,614 Likes

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
3,573 Likes

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
3,460 Likes