--- title: "10 Cups Quotes By Rumi" description: "10 Cups quotes by Rumi. Plus more from Rumi and more Cups sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/069/rumi-56_break_there-are-many-languages-in-the-world-in_1538208.jpg" --- > [There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-are-many-languages-in-the-world-in-meaning-all-are-the-same-if/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/069/rumi-56_break_there-are-many-languages-in-the-world-in_1538208.jpg) > [Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/are-you-jealous-of-the-ocean-s-generosity-why-would-you-refuse-to/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/934/rumi-56_cups_are-you-jealous-of-the-ocean-s-generosit_2986622.jpg) > [Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/take-sips-of-this-pure-wine-being-poured-don-t-mind-that-you-ve-been/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb8/rumi-56_cups_take-sips-of-this-pure-wine-being-poured_2298256.jpg) > [Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/things-are-such-that-someone-lifting-a-cup-or-watching-the-rain/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/922/rumi-56_cups_things-are-such-that-someone-lifting-a-c_666248.jpg) > [Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door. She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side. Seeing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/suddenly-the-drunken-sweetheart-appeared-out-of-my-door-she-drank-a/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c43/rumi-56_cups_suddenly-the-drunken-sweetheart-appeared_1738584.jpg) > [I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-saw-grief-drinking-a-cup-of-sorrow-and-called-out-it-tastes-sweet/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc1/rumi-56_blessing_i-saw-grief-drinking-a-cup-of-sorrow-and_1913343.jpg) > [Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/those-who-don-t-feel-this-love-pulling-them-like-a-river-those-who-2/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90a/rumi-56_consciousness_those-who-don-t-feel-this-love-pulling-t_2523225.jpg) > [“Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/those-who-don-t-feel-this-love-pulling-them-like-a-river-those-who/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7f/rumi-56_beautiful_those-who-don-t-feel-this-love-pulling-t_118141.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) > [Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/learn-to-recognize-the-false-dawn-from-the-true-distinguish-the-color/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ae/rumi-56_color_learn-to-recognize-the-false-dawn-from-t_3082199.jpg) ## Other authors on Cups ## 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/cups/rumi/#itemlist", "name": "10 Cups Quotes By Rumi", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. 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