--- title: "7 Chests Quotes By Rumi" description: "7 Chests quotes by Rumi. Plus more from Rumi and more Chests sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/rumi-56_chests_when-the-ocean-surges-don-t-let-me-just_88243.jpg" --- > [When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/when-the-ocean-surges-don-t-let-me-just-hear-it-let-it-splash-inside/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/564/rumi-56_chests_when-the-ocean-surges-don-t-let-me-just_88243.jpg) > [The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/the-ripe-fignow-that-you-live-here-in-my-chest-anywhere-we-sit-is-a/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95b/rumi-56_age_the-ripe-fignow-that-you-live-here-in-my_1063599.jpg) > [You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/you-dance-inside-my-chest-where-no-one-sees-you/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e33/rumi-56_chests_you-dance-inside-my-chest-where-no-one-s_1127688.jpg) > [Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/poems-reach-up-like-spindrift-and-the-edge-of-driftwood-along-the/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f4/rumi-56_beach_poems-reach-up-like-spindrift-and-the-ed_1465851.jpg) > [I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-do-not-know-who-lives-here-in-my-chest-or-why-the-smile-comes-i-am/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a8/rumi-56_chests_i-do-not-know-who-lives-here-in-my-chest_1964015.jpg) > [Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/love-opens-my-chest-and-thought-returns-to-its-confines/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f7/rumi-56_chests_love-opens-my-chest-and-thought-returns_2362922.jpg) > [What was said to the rose that made it open, was said to me, here in my chest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/what-was-said-to-the-rose-that-made-it-open-was-said-to-me-here-in-my/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77d/rumi-56_chests_what-was-said-to-the-rose-that-made-it-o_2691582.jpg) ## Other authors on Chests ## 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/chests/rumi/#itemlist", "name": "7 Chests Quotes By Rumi", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. 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