“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
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Sufi Quotes
Source: No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
“The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.”
Source: Sufi Thought and Action
Source: The Sufis
“I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.”
“Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.”
“Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.”
“In your beauty, how to make poems.”
Source: Selected poems
“The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.”
“My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.”
“People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.”
“If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death.”
“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart.”
“I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being.”
“You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”
“Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.”
“Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon's reflection.”
Source: Selected poems
“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.”
“If I repent now will God forgive me? No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.”
“Lose your soul in God's Love... I swear there is no other way !”
“If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.”
“What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.”
Source: The Pocket Rumi
“Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.”
“Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.”
Source: The Spiritual Poems of Rumi