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Soul Quotes by Rumi

162 Soul quotes by Rumi

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Rumi’s verses pulse with a timeless yearning for unity, love, and inner truth. Across one hundred sixty‑two lines, his mystic voice invites readers to dissolve boundaries, feel the pulse of the divine, and recognize the soul’s boundless capacity for transformation.

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With each passing moment, a Soul sets off to find Itself.

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There is no salvation for the soul but to fall in love.

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The Heart of the matter is Soul, nothing else...

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“God is the only Friend for the Soul on the Way to God.”

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Now is the time to unite the Soul and the world.

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Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

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Only the soul knows what love is.

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Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed.

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What is the mirror of Being? Non-being. Bring non-being as your gift, if you are not a fool.

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To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.

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Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.

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Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

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Awake asleep ought to be with us - So he may see dreams in wakefulness.

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I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to…

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I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars.

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Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise.

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I drank that Wine of which the Soul is its vessel. Its ecstasy has stolen my intellect away. A Light came and…

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There is a Soul within the Soul. Seek it out. There is a Treasure in your mountain. Seek it Out. A mystic…

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Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that…

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Someday our souls will be one and our union will be forever. I know that everything I give you comes back to…

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It's no good giving my heart and my Soul because you already have these. So I've brought you a mirror. Look at…

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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that…

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There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? You feel the separation from the…

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I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case... HEART might stop. MIND can forget. I…

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My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs,…

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THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is…

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Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming…

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We are the mirror, as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. We are…

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You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who…

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Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so…

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Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments…

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All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed…

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“This is how it is to come near you A wave of light builds in the black pupil of the eye. The…

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

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“How Finite Minds Most Want To Be You are the living marrow. The rest is hay, and dead grass does not nourish…

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Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul.

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When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted

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What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.

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Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER.

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Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.

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The love religion is all that is written here.

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And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

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We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten…

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There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.

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Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

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“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…

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There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

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Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.

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Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.

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I have no name for what circles so perfectly.

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What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.

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We are born of love. Love is our mother.

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Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

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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…

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“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.”

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