Sufi Mystic Quotes

• Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Moving, Compassion

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• Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Roots

  "Overcoming Self-Doubt — What I Have Been Learning From Rumi" by Faisal Hoque, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2015.

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• 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.

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• Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Eye, Way

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• There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Heart, Soul

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• If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

  Rumi

  God, Spiritual, Water

  "Essential Sufism". Book by James Fadiman and Robert Frager, 1997.

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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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• Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Fear, Moving

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

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• Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

  Rumi

  Life, Beautiful, Faith

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.473, Delphi Classics

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• When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Joy, Peaceful

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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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• It's quite common for a Sufi mystic to cry in ecstasy that he's neither a Jew, a Christian, nor a Muslim. He is at home equally in a synagogue, a mosque, a temple, or a church because when one's glimpsed the divine, one's left these man-made distinctions behind.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Home, Men

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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

  Rumi

  Heart, Sufi, Ready

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• Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.

  Rumi

  Heart, May, Sweetness

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• Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

  Rumi

  Love, Heart, Sky

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Marry Your Muse : Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity". Book by Jan Phillips, p. 75, 1997.

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• They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Wall, Heart

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• I was you
  and never knew it.

  Rumi

  Sufi Love

  "Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.

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• I belong to the beloved. Have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know. ...First, Last, Outer, Inner, only that breath breathing. HUMAN BEING.

  Rumi

  Two Worlds, Breathing, Lasts

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.63, Penguin UK

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• Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

  Rumi

  Heart, Sorrow, Yellow Leaves

  "Overcoming Self-Doubt — What I Have Been Learning From Rumi" by Faisal Hoque, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Dance when you're perfectly free.

  Rumi

  Dance, Dancing, Sufi

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.345, Penguin UK

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• Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Heart

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

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• Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Positive Thinking, Hardship

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