Rumi Quotes About Emptiness

• Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

  Rumi

  Book, Heart, Illumination

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.58, Lulu.com

• Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

  Rumi

  Soul, World, Disease

• Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

  Rumi

  Hurt, Grief, Finding Love

• To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Growth, Emptiness

• There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should.

  Rumi

  Spirit, Emptiness, Satan

• What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

  Rumi

  Life, God, Relief

• There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you . . .

  Rumi

  Song, Spring, Fire

• I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.

  Rumi

  Practice, Crafts, Emptiness

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.49, Lulu.com

• There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.

  Rumi

  Emptiness, Stomach, Sweetness

• The here-and-now mountain
  is a tiny piece of a piece of straw
  blown off into emptiness.

  Rumi

  Mountain, Pieces, Tiny

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.44, Lulu.com

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