Rumi Quotes

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Rumi, also known as Jalal al-Din Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic. His poetry is renowned for its profound philosophy, beautiful language, and strong emotions, and has had a profound impact on the world.

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Famous Rumi Quotes

“How did you get here? Close your eyes . . . and surrender!”

Eye Surrender

Author:Rumi

“Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes.”

Light Eye Silence Infinite Blind Surrender Beloved

Author:Rumi

“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”

World Heart Eye Vision Admirable Other Worlds Admiring

Author:Rumi

“I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things.”

Looks I Can Eye Love Is Enormous Great Love

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep it burning. I said: what about my heart? God said: Tell me what you hold inside it? I said: pain and sorrow? He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

Heart Said Light Eye Pain Passion My Heart Sorrow Wounds Burning My Passion Pain And Sorrow

Author:Rumi

“My heart is burning with love. All I can see is this flame. My heart is burning with passion, like waves on an ocean. I'm at home, wherever I am. And in the room of lovers, I can see with closed eyes the beauty that dances. Behind the veils, intoxicated with love, I too dance the rhythm of this moving world.”

World Heart I Can Home Eye Moving Passion Rooms Behinds Lovers My Heart Ocean Wave Rhythm Burning Flames Veils Intoxicated Closed Eyes

Author:Rumi

“The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.. The light which fills the heart is the light of God, which is pure and separate from the light of intellect and sense.”

Heart Light Eye Pure Shining Intellect

Author:Rumi

“Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.”

Looks Home Eye Chosen Look At Me

Book:Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey

Source: Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey

“Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.”

Eye Higher Sight

Author:Rumi

“I look into your eyes & see the universe not yet born.”

Love Looks Eye Universe Born

Author:Rumi

“Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul.”

Soul Body Eye Order Your Soul Fasting

Author:Rumi

“The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.”

Moments Eye Time Spirituality Saws Meditation Eternal Essence His Eyes Manifest

Author:Rumi

About the Author

Born: September 30, 1207
Died: December 17, 1273
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 1834

Books & Sources

Selected poemsRelated source material

The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin RumiRelated source material

'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the PersianRelated source material

The Pocket RumiRelated source material

The Rumi CollectionRelated source material

Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)Related source material

Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's JourneyRelated source material

Love is a StrangerRelated source material

The Spiritual Poems of RumiRelated source material

Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of RumiRelated source material

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