--- title: "6 Deeper Quotes By Rumi" description: "6 Deeper quotes by Rumi. Plus more from Rumi and more Deeper sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/400/rumi-56_before-sleeping_if-you-put-on-shoes-that-are-too-tight-a_305150.jpg" --- > [If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/if-you-put-on-shoes-that-are-too-tight-and-walk-out-across-an-empty/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/400/rumi-56_before-sleeping_if-you-put-on-shoes-that-are-too-tight-a_305150.jpg) > [You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/you-ve-been-walking-the-ocean-s-edge-holding-up-your-robes-to-keep-2/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f15/rumi-56_deeper_you-ve-been-walking-the-ocean-s-edge-hol_876388.jpg) > [As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/as-you-live-deeper-in-the-heart-the-mirror-gets-clearer-and-cleaner/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/038/rumi-56_cleaners_as-you-live-deeper-in-the-heart-the-mirr_1302806.jpg) > [Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/let-yourself-be-gently-pulled-by-the-deeper-desire-of-what-you-want/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a9/rumi-56_deeper_let-yourself-be-gently-pulled-by-the-dee_1879730.jpg) > [You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/you-have-been-walking-the-ocean-s-edge-holding-up-your-robes-to-keep/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ee/rumi-56_blanket_you-have-been-walking-the-ocean-s-edge-h_2015187.jpg) > [Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/be-a-helpful-friend-and-you-will-become-a-green-tree-with-always-new/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b4/rumi-56_deeper_be-a-helpful-friend-and-you-will-become_2139240.jpg) ## Other authors on Deeper ## 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/deeper/rumi/#itemlist", "name": "6 Deeper Quotes By Rumi", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place unless you take off your shoes. Your shoe-constriction has you confined. 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