--- title: "9 Seeing Quotes By Rumi" description: "9 Seeing quotes by Rumi. Plus more from Rumi and more Seeing sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/328/rumi-56_achieve_achieve-some-perfection-excellence-yours_1366995.jpg" --- > [ Achieve some perfection \[excellence\] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/achieve-some-perfection-excellence-yourself-so-that-you-may-not-fall/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/328/rumi-56_achieve_achieve-some-perfection-excellence-yours_1366995.jpg) > [God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/god-s-purpose-for-man-is-to-acquire-a-seeing-eye-and-an-understanding-2/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6eb/rumi-56_acquire_god-s-purpose-for-man-is-to-acquire-a-se_3160228.jpg) > [Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/try-another-way-of-looking-try-you-looking-and-the-whole-universe/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba4/rumi-56_another-way_try-another-way-of-looking-try-you-looki_1992119.jpg) > [Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/stop-looking-for-something-out-there-and-begin-seeing-within/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bc/rumi-56_funny_stop-looking-for-something-out-there-and_3204738.jpg) > [Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/behead-yourself-dissolve-your-whole-body-into-vision-become-seeing/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/866/rumi-56_body_behead-yourself-dissolve-your-whole-body_2652639.jpg) > [A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/a-seeing-eye-is-better-than-three-hundred-blind-men-s-the-eye-can/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7be/rumi-56_blind_a-seeing-eye-is-better-than-three-hundre_1874923.jpg) > [Lovers have heartaches That can't be cured by drugs Or sleep, Or games, But only by seeing their beloved.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/lovers-have-heartaches-that-can-t-be-cured-by-drugs-or-sleep-or-games/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdb/rumi-56_beloved_lovers-have-heartaches-that-can-t-be-cur_1094463.jpg) > [Never lose hope when the beloved sends you away. If you're abandoned if you're left hopeless tomorrow for sure you'll be called…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/never-lose-hope-when-the-beloved-sends-you-away-if-you-re-abandoned/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8a8/rumi-56_abandoned_never-lose-hope-when-the-beloved-sends-y_1381683.jpg) > [God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/god-s-purpose-for-man-is-to-acquire-a-seeing-eye-and-an-understanding/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/066/rumi-56_acquire_god-s-purpose-for-man-is-to-acquire-a-se_2023670.jpg) ## Other authors on Seeing ## 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/seeing/rumi/#itemlist", "name": "9 Seeing Quotes By Rumi", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rumi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/achieve-some-perfection-excellence-yourself-so-that-you-may-not-fall/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/328/rumi-56_achieve_achieve-some-perfection-excellence-yours_1366995.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/328/rumi-56_achieve_achieve-some-perfection-excellence-yours_1366995.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/328/rumi-56_achieve_achieve-some-perfection-excellence-yours_1366995.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection…” — Rumi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rumi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/god-s-purpose-for-man-is-to-acquire-a-seeing-eye-and-an-understanding-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6eb/rumi-56_acquire_god-s-purpose-for-man-is-to-acquire-a-se_3160228.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6eb/rumi-56_acquire_god-s-purpose-for-man-is-to-acquire-a-se_3160228.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6eb/rumi-56_acquire_god-s-purpose-for-man-is-to-acquire-a-se_3160228.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.” — Rumi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Try another way of looking. 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