Inspirational Sufi Quotes

• Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Sadness

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Positive, Health

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.127, Shambhala Publications

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• This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Morning

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Guest House”

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• Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames

  Rumi

  Inspirational, I Hate You, Flames

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• Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.57, Shambhala Publications

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• Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

  Rumi

  Running, Anger, Night

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• And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Journey

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• When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Integrity, Moving

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Spiritual

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• Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Thinking

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• The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

  "Donald Trump Fails George W. Bush's Lessons From 9/11" by John Bridgeland, time.com. October 19, 2016.

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• Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

  Rumi

  Sympathy, Death, True Love

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• Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

  Rumi

  Love, Life, Sufi

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.245, Penguin UK

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• But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Blessing, Being Sad

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

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• Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

  Rumi

  Snow, Melting, Sufi

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

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• I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Tired, Way

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.166, Penguin UK

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• Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Two, World

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• Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.

  Rumi

  Dancing, Soul, Shadow

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• Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.336, Penguin UK

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• I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Doors, Insanity

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• In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Dance

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• Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Sufi, Wherever You Are

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• There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

  Rumi

  Heart, Sufi, Ready

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• Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come.

  Rumi

  Broken, Vow, Thousand

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• The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.

  Rumi

  Anniversary, Marriage, Valentines Day

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “Untitled”

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