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Spirituality Quotes by Rumi

102 Spirituality quotes by Rumi

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Your heart seeks illumination and must stay awake to the inner soul. The quotes speak of washing dust from the soul with wisdom’s water and of recognizing the light that lives inside each person. They also remind us that we are the soul of the universe, and our name is Love.

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The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.

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Apparently two, but one in soul, you and I...

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Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.

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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

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The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

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Everything is soul and flowering.

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The soul is here for its own joy.

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Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

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The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.

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My souls sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this?

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There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.

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A soul which is not clothed with the inner garment of Love should be ashamed of its existence.

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Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter.

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I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul,…

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Actually, your soul and mine are the same. We appear and disappear with each other.

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True beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul...

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Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you…

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“Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down…

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All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed…

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If you put your soul against the oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a…

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“I will whisper secrets in your ears, just nod yes and be silent. A soul moon appeared in the path of my…

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The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest…

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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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Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter…

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I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun . . . I am the mist of…

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“You attain to knowledge by argument; You attain a craft or skill by practice; If voluntary poverty's your choice, companionship's the way,…

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The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest…

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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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When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one;…

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A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel…

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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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My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs,…

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“How Finite Minds Most Want To Be You are the living marrow. The rest is hay, and dead grass does not nourish…

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“The Drunken Gnat You are the soul of the soul, a door that opens into existence. When separation makes us angry, you…

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“A Mystic And A Drunk The Universe turns on an axis. Let my soul circle around a table like a beggar, like…

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“The cloud weeps, and then the garden sprouts. The baby cries, and the mother's milk flows. The nurse of creation has said,…

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“A man on his deathbed left instructions For dividing up his goods among his three sons. He had devoted his entire spirit…

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“Infinitesimal Dust What is the light in the center of the darkness inside your soul? A royal radiance or a fantasy like…

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“Our death is our wedding with eternity What is the secret? "God is One." The sunlight splits when entering the windows of…

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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…

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And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

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.”