Ocean Quotes by Rumi

There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it.

— Rumi

If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.

— Rumi

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

— Rumi

“You are not just a drop in the ocean, you are the mighty ocean in the drop.”

— Rumi

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

— Rumi

I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.

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You are not just the drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.

— Rumi

Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.

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When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean.

— Rumi

With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish…

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When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest!

— Rumi

There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are…

— Rumi

Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.

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Are you searching for the river of your soul? Then come out of your prison. Leave the stream and join the river…

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Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets.

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Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you…

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Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings… Leave and don't look away from the sun…

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Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to…

— Rumi

Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people…

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My heart is burning with love. All I can see is this flame. My heart is burning with passion, like waves on…

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To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of…

— Rumi

I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility. where…

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I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made…

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Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above…

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Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind…

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Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid…

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“You are sitting here with us, but you are also out walking in a field at dawn. You are yourself the animal…

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You have no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What's the point of bringing…

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IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids…

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Let yourself be loved, O Beloved, in the One. And from this One move out into the world, carrying within you the…

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You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper…

— Rumi

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from…

— Rumi

“you are not a drop in the ocean... you are entire ocean in a drop”

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One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear.

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Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.

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“Day and night I guarded the pearl of my soul. Now in this ocean of pearling currents, I’ve lost track of which…

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You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood Come merge with me leave…

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You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under,…

— Rumi

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to…

— Rumi

The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and…

— Rumi