Sufi Mystic Quotes

• If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

  Rumi

  God, Spiritual, Water

  "Essential Sufism". Book by James Fadiman and Robert Frager, 1997.

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• Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Roots

  "Overcoming Self-Doubt — What I Have Been Learning From Rumi" by Faisal Hoque, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Heart

  "The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi". Book by William C. Chittick, p. 162, 1983.

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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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• Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Fear, Moving

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Eye, Way

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• Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Moving, Compassion

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• When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Integrity, Moving

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Joy, Peaceful

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• Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

  Rumi

  Life, Beautiful, Faith

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.473, Delphi Classics

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• Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

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• Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Marry Your Muse : Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity". Book by Jan Phillips, p. 75, 1997.

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• There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

  Rumi

  Heart, Sufi, Ready

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• Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

  Rumi

  Love, Heart, Sky

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  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.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all.

  Rumi

  Love Is, Deep Love, Pure

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “O Love”

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• Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself

  Rumi

  Essence, Speak, Sufi Love

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• Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

  Rumi

  Love, Life, Sufi

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.245, Penguin UK

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• I was you
  and never knew it.

  Rumi

  Sufi Love

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

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

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Stars, Dust

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

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Positive Thinking, Hardship

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• They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Wall, Heart

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• In your light I learn how to love.

  Rumi

  Dance, Lost Love, Light

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

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• The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

  "Donald Trump Fails George W. Bush's Lessons From 9/11" by John Bridgeland, time.com. October 19, 2016.

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• Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.

  Rumi

  Christian, Buddhist, Ocean

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