Rumi Quotes About Vision

• I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within. Look at me not with outward eye but with inward vision of the heart; Follow me there and see how unencumbered we become.

  Rumi

  Healing, Heart, Eye

• Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Heart

  "The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi". Book by William C. Chittick, p. 162, 1983.

• Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prision. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Ocean, Self

• Love means to reach for the sky
  and with every breath to tear a
  hundred veils. Love means to step
  away from the ego, to open the eyes
  of inner vision and not to take this
  world so seriously

  Rumi

  Mean, Eye, Sky

• Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then it may be that patience and time may produce, out of the spectrum-viewing sight, true vision, and you will behold colors other than these mortal hues, you will see pearls instead of stones. Pearls, did I say? Nay more, you will become a sea, you will become a sun traveling the sky.

  Rumi

  Wine, Thoughtful, Sight

• Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.

  Rumi

  Heart, Eye, Self

• You live in my heart where no one sees you but I do. That vision becomes this art.

  Rumi

  Love, Art, Vision

• Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Vision, Body

• When you stop admiring yourself
  and let the eyes of the heart
  open your vision to vast other worlds
  then all you do, will become admirable

  Rumi

  Heart, Eye, Other Worlds

• Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.

  Rumi

  Funny, Motivation, Positive Thinking

• Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?

  Rumi

  Garden, Rose, Vision

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Seed Market”

• Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

  Rumi

  Men, Vision, Would Be

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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