--- title: "8 Bottom Quotes By Rumi" description: "8 Bottom quotes by Rumi. Plus more from Rumi and more Bottom sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f7/rumi-56_another-world_shut-your-eyes-so-the-heart-may-become-y_906949.jpg" --- > [Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/shut-your-eyes-so-the-heart-may-become-your-eye-and-with-that-vision/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f7/rumi-56_another-world_shut-your-eyes-so-the-heart-may-become-y_906949.jpg) > [You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/you-do-not-see-clearly-the-evil-in-yourself-else-you-would-hate/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ba/rumi-56_bottom_you-do-not-see-clearly-the-evil-in-yours_958919.jpg) > [Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/why-should-i-stay-at-the-bottom-of-a-well-when-a-strong-rope-is-in-my/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ed/rumi-56_bottom_why-should-i-stay-at-the-bottom-of-a-wel_1573455.jpg) > [When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/when-water-gets-caught-in-habitual-whirlpools-dig-a-way-out-through/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c60/rumi-56_bottom_when-water-gets-caught-in-habitual-whirl_1664636.jpg) > [IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/ignorance-i-didn-t-know-love-would-make-me-this-crazy-with-my-eyes/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50f/rumi-56_alligators_ignorance-i-didn-t-know-love-would-make_2033582.jpg) > [This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/this-world-is-in-deep-trouble-from-top-to-bottom-but-it-can-be/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e8/rumi-56_bottom_this-world-is-in-deep-trouble-from-top-t_2806494.jpg) > [When you reach the bottom of the well of your own nature, then you will know that the vileness was from yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/when-you-reach-the-bottom-of-the-well-of-your-own-nature-then-you/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b69/rumi-56_bottom_when-you-reach-the-bottom-of-the-well-of_2907369.jpg) > [What strange beings we are! That sitting in hell at the bottom of the dark, we're afraid of our own immortality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/what-strange-beings-we-are-that-sitting-in-hell-at-the-bottom-of-the/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c08/rumi-56_afraid_what-strange-beings-we-are-that-sitting_3207261.jpg) ## Other authors on Bottom ## 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/bottom/rumi/#itemlist", "name": "8 Bottom Quotes By Rumi", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. 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