Rumi Quote by Cihan Okuyucu

“But the story didn't end there. Almost 800 years later, the spirits of Shams & Rumi are still alive today,whirling amid us somewhere…”

— Elif Shafak

“the more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is…

— Rumi

“Give up a drop, become an ocean - Sufi saint Rumi.”

— Kashmira J. Gohil

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and…

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

“He looked up to the gods but never accepted their eternal superiority. For better or worse, plotting their overthrow was the only aspiration that…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

“The poet Rumi says: "How long will we fill our pockets like children with dirt and stones? Let the world go. Holding it, we…

— Sharon Salzberg

“They talked about God. They had no picture in their minds of some mist steaming upward: rather of strong, skillful hands thrust down to…

— C.S. Lewis

“The thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi is said to have written, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find…

— Robert Wright

“unless it was enough for these worshipers to bask in the knowledge that, though invisible to them and in every way inaccessible to them,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Mother: “Rumi wrote that…roughly…the only thing that will be with you to your grave is your work. Only your work will speak for you…

— Eula Biss

“Two thousand Sufi poets assembled in Baghdad last night Bullets, rockets and granades flying Allah heard only their wine voices Bursting in a fireball…

— Gabriel Rosenstock

“Rumi speaks often of the power of silence to take us to what we are looking for. In one poem he says: We search…

— Matthew Fox