Inspirational Sufi Quotes

• Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.336, Penguin UK

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• God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

  Rumi

  Faith, Attitude, Mean

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

  Rumi

  Running, Anger, Night

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• This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Morning

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Guest House”

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

  Rumi

  Inspirational, I Hate You, Flames

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• Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Positive Thinking, Hardship

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• Why should I be unhappy? Each parcel of my being is in full bloom.

  Rumi

  Unhappy, Should, Sufism

  "The Rumi Collection".

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• Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

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• Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

  Rumi

  Life, Encouragement, Spirit

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 26, 2006.

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• Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wine

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• We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Stars, Dust

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• My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

  Rumi

  Friendship, Way, Action

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• What strikes the oyster shell
  doesn't damage the pearl.

  Rumi

  Oysters, Shells, Pearls

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.128, Shambhala Publications

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• Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Fear

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.57, Lulu.com

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• Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Hands, Looks

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• 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.

  Rumi

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

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

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• Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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

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• Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Confidence

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.72, Penguin UK

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• Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Soul, Acting

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• Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

  Rumi

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

  Rumi

  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Friendship, Thank You

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Guest House”

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• There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Soul

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