Rumi Quotes - Page 26

• Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

  Rumi

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Nature

  59 Copy quote

• And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Journey

  8 Copy quote

• Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

  Rumi

  Creative, Rays, Beloved

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

  7 Copy quote

• Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

  Rumi

  Love, Spiritual, Embrace

  7 Copy quote

• My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.

  Rumi

  Heart, Joy, Bursting

  "Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.

  29 Copy quote

• When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.

  Rumi

  Courage, Heart, Garden

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.100, Shambhala Publications

  17 Copy quote

• Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.

  Rumi

  Heart, Eye, Self

  21 Copy quote

• To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips. To die to self through self-discipline causes suffering but brings you everlasting life.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Fall, Self

  11 Copy quote

• Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames

  Rumi

  Inspirational, I Hate You, Flames

  136 Copy quote

• A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I've disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I've forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I've become a scholar. I've lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.

  Rumi

  Love, Knowing, Able

  35 Copy quote

• Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Journey, Tree

  18 Copy quote

• When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.

  Rumi

  Travel, Advice, Asks

  5 Copy quote

• Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself.

  Rumi

  God Love, Enough, Presence Of Love

  32 Copy quote

• In your light I learn how to love.

  Rumi

  Dance, Lost Love, Light

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.166, Penguin UK

  13 Copy quote

• Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.

  Rumi

  Medicine, Principles, Firsts

  14 Copy quote

• If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.

  Rumi

  Stars, Water, Looks

  11 Copy quote

• Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?

  Rumi

  Time, Competition, Mystery

  66 Copy quote

• A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.

  Rumi

  His Love, Lovers, Lost

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

  7 Copy quote

• Innumerable changes of moods are yours, and they are uncontrolled by you. If you knew their origin, you would be able to dominate them. If you cannot localize your own changes, how can you localize that which formed you?

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Would Be

  7 Copy quote

• Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not of the East, nor of the West....
  My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.

  Rumi

  Christian, Buddhist, East

  11 Copy quote

• Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in the sunset like supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep on. This Love is beyond the study of theology, that old trickery and hypocrisy. If you want to improve your mind that way, sleep on. I've given up on my brain. I've torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away. If you're not completely naked, wrap your beautiful robe of words around you, and sleep on

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Spring, Sunset

  39 Copy quote

• Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.

  Rumi

  Ego, Cows, Spirit

  6 Copy quote

• Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.

  Rumi

  Beauty, Brother, Pain

  14 Copy quote

• Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

  Rumi

  Lamps, Ladders, Lifeboats

  73 Copy quote

• In this earth,
  in this immaculate field,
  we shall not plant any seeds
  except for compassion,
  except for love.

  Rumi

  Compassion, Earth, Fields

  35 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Shams Tabrizi

Hafez

Yunus Emre

Saadi

Omar Khayyam

Farid al-Din Attar

Khalil Gibran

Ibn Arabi