Rumi Quotes About Sleep

• Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

  Rumi

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Nature

• The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Sleep, Doors

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Breeze At Dawn”

• The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.

  Rumi

  Good Morning, Spiritual, Inspiration

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Breeze At Dawn”

• Everyone sleeps, except lovers, who stay awake, telling stories to God

  Rumi

  Sleep, Stories, Lovers

• Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.

  Rumi

  Beauty, Brother, Pain

• Last night you left me and slept your own deep sleep. Tonight you turn and turn. I say, 'You and I will be together till the Universe dissolves.' You mumble back things you thought of when you were drunk.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Past, Night

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.99, Lulu.com

• Because I cannot sleep I make music at night.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Night

  "The Rumi Collection".

• Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back to sleep. The power of Love is exclusive to us, you can go back to sleep. I have been burnt by the fire of Love. You who have no such yearning in your heart, go back to sleep. The path of Love, has seventy-two folds and countless facets. Your love and religion is all about deceit, control and hypocrisy, go back to sleep. I have torn to pieces my robe of speech, and have let go of the desire to converse. You who are not naked yet, you can go back to sleep.

  Rumi

  Letting Go, Love You, Heart

• Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in the sunset like supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep on. This Love is beyond the study of theology, that old trickery and hypocrisy. If you want to improve your mind that way, sleep on. I've given up on my brain. I've torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away. If you're not completely naked, wrap your beautiful robe of words around you, and sleep on

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Spring, Sunset

• When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.

  Rumi

  Love, Spiritual, Sleep

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.147, Penguin UK

• 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".

• In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.

  Rumi

  Spring, Sleep, Winter

• If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Night, Ego

• If we come to sleep we are His drowsy ones And if we come to wake we are in His hands If we come to weeping we are His cloud full of raindrops And if we come to laughing we are His lightning in that moment If we come to anger and battle it is the reflection of His wrath And if we come to peace and pardon it is the reflection of His love Who are we in this complicated world?

  Rumi

  Sleep, Reflection, Clouds

• You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Doors, Want

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Breeze At Dawn”

• 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 if your heart is already awakened,
  Sleep peacefully, sleep in the arms of Love

  Rumi

  Love, War, Heart

• Daylight, full of small dancing particles and the one great turning, our souls are dancing with you, without feet, they dance. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear? All day and night, music, a quiet, bright reedsong. If it fades, we fade.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Night, Feet

• This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Night, Long

• Those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Want

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.98, Lulu.com

• 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

• Lovers have heartaches
  That can't be cured by drugs
  Or sleep,
  Or games,
  But only by seeing their beloved.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Games, Heartache

• You try to be faithful And sometimes you're cruel. You are mine. Then, you leave. Without you, I can't cope. And when you take the lead, I become your footstep. Your absence leaves a void. Without you, I can't cope. You have disturbed my sleep, You have wrecked my image. You have set me apart. Without you, I can't cope.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Faithful, Trying

• Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.

  Rumi

  Sunset, Sleep, Rivers

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.98, Lulu.com

• I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference

  Rumi

  Sleep, Night, Differences

• For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back.

  Rumi

  Sleep, Air, Dust

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.81, Lulu.com

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