Rumi Quotes About Spiritual Growth

• The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

• Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.

  Rumi

  Being Happy, Delight, Jars

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.62, Lulu.com

• People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Reflection, People

• Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Eye, Spiritual Growth

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “There Is A Community Of Spirit”

• The middle path is the way to wisdom

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Middle Path

• We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Stars, Dust

• Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.

  Rumi

  Communication, Order, Inspire

• Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

  Rumi

  Fire, People, Spiritual Growth

• Thirst drove me down to the water
  where I drank the moon's reflection.

  Rumi

  Reflection, Moon, Water

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.35, Penguin UK

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

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Growth, Emptiness

• My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

  Rumi

  Friendship, Way, Action

• Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Song, Giving

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.263, Penguin UK

• No mirror ever became iron again;
  No bread ever became wheat;
  No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
  Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
  Become the light.

  Rumi

  Courage, Maturity, Light

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.138, Shambhala Publications

• No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Crazy, Home

• 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

• Friends are enemies sometimes, and enemies friends.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Growth, Enemy

• The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

  Rumi

  Passion, Heart, Fire

• You think the shadow is the substance.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Thinking, Growth

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.136, Shambhala Publications

• I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Joy, Growth

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