--- title: "7 Asking Quotes By Rumi" description: "7 Asking quotes by Rumi. Plus more from Rumi and more Asking sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/117/rumi-56_accord_all-day-i-think-about-it-then-at-night-i_96105.jpg" --- > [All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/all-day-i-think-about-it-then-at-night-i-say-it-where-did-i-come-from/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/117/rumi-56_accord_all-day-i-think-about-it-then-at-night-i_96105.jpg) > [I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-cannot-stop-asking-if-i-could-taste-one-sip-of-an-answer-i-could/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6c/rumi-56_answers_i-cannot-stop-asking-if-i-could-taste-on_328824.jpg) > [I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-have-been-a-seeker-and-i-still-am-but-i-stopped-asking-the-books/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/034/rumi-56_asking_i-have-been-a-seeker-and-i-still-am-but_340397.jpg) > [Inside any deep asking is the answering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/inside-any-deep-asking-is-the-answering/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14f/rumi-56_asking_inside-any-deep-asking-is-the-answering_731225.jpg) > [This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/this-is-not-a-day-for-asking-questions-not-a-day-on-any-calendar-this/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/47c/rumi-56_asking_this-is-not-a-day-for-asking-questions-n_2305602.jpg) > [There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-a-basket-of-fresh-bread-on-your-head-yet-you-go-door-to-door/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34d/rumi-56_asking_there-is-a-basket-of-fresh-bread-on-your_2986119.jpg) > [Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/creatures-are-cups-the-sciences-and-the-arts-and-all-branches-of/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2b/rumi-56_animals_creatures-are-cups-the-sciences-and-the_3075874.jpg) ## Other authors on Asking ## More by Rumi > [The love religion is all that is written here.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/the-love-religion-is-all-that-is-written-here/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/and-so-it-is-that-both-the-devil-and-the-angelic-spirit-present-us/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/we-began-as-mineral-we-emerged-into-plant-life-and-into-the-animal/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-a-morning-inside-you-waiting-to-burst-open-into-light/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/sometimes-you-hear-a-voice-through-the-door-calling-you-this-turning/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/you-ve-so-distracted-me-your-absence-fans-my-love-don-t-ask-how-then/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-something-to-be-said-for-anyone-who-sits-alone-with-dignity/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/tis-easy-to-break-an-idol-very-easy-to-regard-the-self-as-easy-to/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/today-let-us-swim-wildly-joyously-in-gratitude/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [I have no name for what circles so perfectly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-have-no-name-for-what-circles-so-perfectly/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/what-draws-friends-together-does-not-conform-to-the-laws-of-nature/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [We are born of love. Love is our mother.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/we-are-born-of-love-love-is-our-mother/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/water-stories-the-body-all-the-things-we-do-are-mediums-that-hid-and/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/if-your-heart-isn-t-yet-illumined-be-awake-always-be-a-seeker-of-the/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-came-back-to-you-because-i-could-not-find-the-kind-and-decent/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/asking/rumi/#itemlist", "name": "7 Asking Quotes By Rumi", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that,and I intend to end up there. Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I cannot stop asking. 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