Sufi Mystic Quotes

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

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

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• In your beauty, how to make poems.

  Rumi

  Dance, Lost Love, Sufi

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

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• You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.

  Rumi

  Dance, Lost Love, Sufi

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

  Rumi

  Heart, Sufi, Ready

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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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• 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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• Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

  Rumi

  Love, Heart, Sky

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

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Positive Thinking, Hardship

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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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• In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Dance

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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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• Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.

  Rumi

  Heart, May, Sweetness

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

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Joy, Peaceful

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

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Stars, Dust

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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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• 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.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Dance, Spiritual

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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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• Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Positive, Spiritual

  "Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations". Book edited by Sy Safransky, p. 67, 1990.

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