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Heart Quotes by Rumi

207 Heart quotes by Rumi

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Rumi treats the heart as a guide that must be awakened and kept clear of inner battles. He talks about knocking on the door of your own heart and breaking it open to find deeper truth. The verses also link love, loss, and the idea that the heart can see what the mind cannot.

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What a Joy, to travel the way of the heart

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I have found the heart and will never leave This house of light.

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The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.

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Those with open hearts always have open hands.

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I can heal a broken heart with a smile.

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

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Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open!

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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

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You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in…

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Join the community of saints and know the delight of your own Soul. Enter the ruins of your Heart and Learn the…

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Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.

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

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My beloved grows right out of my own heart. How much more union can there be…

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I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world.

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Your heart mirrors not His love, Rusty with your sins it is, Remove this rust and you shall Perceive how Glorious He…

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Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.

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Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the…

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Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart.…

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I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the…

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If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal…

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Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these…

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There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light…

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Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens…

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Sometimes in order to help He makes us cry Happy the eye that sheds tears for His sake Fortunate the heart that…

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I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep…

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God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you…

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Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains…

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Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set…

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My heart is burning with love. All I can see is this flame. My heart is burning with passion, like waves on…

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You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing…

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Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there; Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek Love lights Her fire from that flame. When beauty…

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I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am…

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Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back…

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I found the Divine within my Heart.

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The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

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There is a window from one heart to another heart.

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The heart is the secret inside the secret.

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Fasting is an amazing thing. It gives people heart and soul.

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I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

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Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining.

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We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten…

There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you…

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.

I have no name for what circles so perfectly.

What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.

We are born of love. Love is our mother.

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But…

“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.”