--- title: "11 Seeking Quotes By Rumi" description: "11 Seeking quotes by Rumi. Plus more from Rumi and more Seeking sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e8/rumi-56_funny_what-you-re-seeking-is-seeking-you-18636_1863646.jpg" --- > [What you're seeking is seeking you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/what-you-re-seeking-is-seeking-you/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e8/rumi-56_funny_what-you-re-seeking-is-seeking-you-18636_1863646.jpg) > [Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/spirit-find-your-way-in-seeking-lowness-like-a-stream/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8b/rumi-56_inspirational_spirit-find-your-way-in-seeking-lowness_1145254.jpg) > [What you are seeking is also seeking you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/what-you-are-seeking-is-also-seeking-you/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b85/rumi-56_funny_what-you-are-seeking-is-also-seeking-you_2290330.jpg) > [In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/in-their-seeking-wisdom-and-madness-are-one-and-the-same-on-the-path/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/002/rumi-56_friendship_in-their-seeking-wisdom-and-madness-are_1873790.jpg) > [The Beloved is with you in the midst of your seeking! He holds your hand wherever you wander.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/the-beloved-is-with-you-in-the-midst-of-your-seeking-he-holds-your/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b3/rumi-56_beloved_the-beloved-is-with-you-in-the-midst-of_2060428.jpg) > [Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/why-am-i-seeking-i-am-the-same-as-he-his-essence-speaks-through-me-i/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/409/rumi-56_essence_why-am-i-seeking-i-am-the-same-as-he-his_594046.jpg) > [Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/return-from-existence-to-nonexistence-you-are-seeking-the-lord-and/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ef/rumi-56_existence_return-from-existence-to-nonexistence-yo_343914.jpg) > [Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don't seek the river. Don't turn your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/silence-is-the-sea-and-speech-is-like-the-river-the-sea-is-seeking/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8f/rumi-56_communication_silence-is-the-sea-and-speech-is-like-th_2167481.jpg) > [In truth everything and everyone Is a shadow of the Beloved, And our seeking is His seeking And our words are His…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/in-truth-everything-and-everyone-is-a-shadow-of-the-beloved-and-our/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c91/rumi-56_asks_in-truth-everything-and-everyone-is-a-sh_1958199.jpg) > [If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/if-you-are-seeking-seek-us-with-joy-for-we-live-in-the-kingdom-of-joy/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/811/rumi-56_clear_if-you-are-seeking-seek-us-with-joy-for_1662168.jpg) > [Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is unlimited, but it comes down according to the season. Grocers put sugar in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/wisdom-is-like-the-rain-its-source-is-unlimited-but-it-comes-down/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13e/rumi-56_abundance_wisdom-is-like-the-rain-its-source-is-un_1334033.jpg) ## Other authors on Seeking ## 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/seeking/rumi/#itemlist", "name": "11 Seeking Quotes By Rumi", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What you're seeking is seeking you.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rumi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/what-you-re-seeking-is-seeking-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e8/rumi-56_funny_what-you-re-seeking-is-seeking-you-18636_1863646.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e8/rumi-56_funny_what-you-re-seeking-is-seeking-you-18636_1863646.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e8/rumi-56_funny_what-you-re-seeking-is-seeking-you-18636_1863646.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What you're seeking is seeking you.” — Rumi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rumi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/spirit-find-your-way-in-seeking-lowness-like-a-stream/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8b/rumi-56_inspirational_spirit-find-your-way-in-seeking-lowness_1145254.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8b/rumi-56_inspirational_spirit-find-your-way-in-seeking-lowness_1145254.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8b/rumi-56_inspirational_spirit-find-your-way-in-seeking-lowness_1145254.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.” — Rumi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What you are seeking is also seeking you.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rumi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/what-you-are-seeking-is-also-seeking-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b85/rumi-56_funny_what-you-are-seeking-is-also-seeking-you_2290330.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b85/rumi-56_funny_what-you-are-seeking-is-also-seeking-you_2290330.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b85/rumi-56_funny_what-you-are-seeking-is-also-seeking-you_2290330.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What you are seeking is also seeking you.” — Rumi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. 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