Rumi Quotes About Dreams

• You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.

  Rumi

  Trust, Dream, Encouragement

• Swim out of your little pond.

  Rumi

  Dream, Swim, Ponds

• Open your Eyes, for this World is only a Dream.

  Rumi

  Dream, Eye, World

• This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

  Rumi

  Dream, Real, Grief

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.154, Penguin UK

• I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams
  to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility.
  where suffering and pain do not exist,
  where we give praises for our joy and happiness,
  where our Love interwines with Love for all things.

  Rumi

  Dream, Pain, Ocean

• That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again

  Rumi

  Dream, Moon, Sky

• Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth.

  Rumi

  Life, Dream, Truth

  "Selected Poems".

• If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place unless you take off your shoes. Your shoe-constriction has you confined. At night before sleeping you take off the tight shoes, and your soul releases into a place it knows. Dreams glide deeper.

  Rumi

  Dream, Freedom, Sleep

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

  Rumi

  Dream, Soul, May

• We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We started sober: are love's startled drunkards. You hide me in your cloak of nothingness Reflect my ghost in your glass of being I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream Where your eternity briefly trembles.

  Rumi

  Dream, Glasses, Sea

• You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.

  Rumi

  Dream, Water, Veins

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