Sufi Wisdom Quotes

• When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

  Rumi

  Positive, Islamic, I Hate You

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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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• 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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  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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• I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.

  Rumi

  Sufi, Found, Sufism

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• The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Positive, Health

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.127, Shambhala Publications

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• What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Hurt, Darkness

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.50, Penguin UK

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• The cure for pain is in the pain.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Pain, Cures

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

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• Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

  Idries Shah

  Spiritual, Enlightenment, Littles

  Idries Shah (1999). “The Sufis”, p.124, Octagon Press Ltd

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• Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Past

  "Teachers of Wisdom". Book by Igor Kononenko, p. 134, 2010.

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• My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

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• If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Sufi

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• Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

  Rumi

  Love, Heart, Sky

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• Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others.

  Muhammad

  Life, Happiness, Faults

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• ‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Swimming, Names, Light

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (2010). “A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty”, p.58, Library of Alexandria

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• Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.

  Wasif Ali Wasif

  Life Is, Process, Protector

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• Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.

  Unknown

  Love, Inspirational, Good Morning

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• Asking good questions is half of learning.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Spiritual, Good Questions, Asking

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• Dance when you're perfectly free.

  Rumi

  Dance, Dancing, Sufi

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.345, Penguin UK

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• The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.

  Bayazid Bastami

  Found, Sufism, Sufi Love

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• When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.

  Wasif Ali Wasif

  Mother, Children, Praying

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• If someone remarks "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Islamic

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• Your eyes are even smaller,
  yet they behold the world.

  Rumi

  Eye, World

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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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