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> [If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face, maybe you wouldn’t slumber so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/if-you-knew-yourself-for-even-one-moment-if-you-could-just-glimpse/)

[Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c9/rumi-56_beautiful_if-you-knew-yourself-for-even-one-moment_303054.jpg)

> [Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/don-t-see-yourself-as-a-body-of-clay-see-yourself-as-a-mirror/)

[Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aef/rumi-56_beauty_don-t-see-yourself-as-a-body-of-clay-see_2838031.jpg)

> [I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-am-pure-light-not-just-a-fistful-of-clay-the-shell-is-not-me-i-came/)

[Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/754/rumi-56_clay_i-am-pure-light-not-just-a-fistful-of-cl_3003814.jpg)

## Other authors on Clay

## 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/)

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