The words of the Persian poet Rumi resonate in our hearts. Compassion and love are its pillars, guiding us on the path to a more spiritual life.

Among his many quotes, here is a selection. Chosen on the theme of trusting life and oneself, they harmonize beautifully with the teachings of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and the management of our emotions.

  1. Through the wound, light enters you.
  2. These pains you feel are messengers, listen to them.
  3. Know that one day, your pain will become your healing.
  4. You who are in the shadows, be patient, dawn is coming.
  5. Your heart knows the way, run in that direction.
  6. What you seek, is seeking you.
  7. If every friction irritates you, how will you be polished?
  8. There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen to it.
  9. Love is the bridge between you and everything else.
  10. Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
  11. Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. It will not lead you astray.
  12. Why are you so enchanted with this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?
  13. Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
  14. This is your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
  15. 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.
  16. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
  17. Don’t be content with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.