Top 25 Quotes by Rumi of 1775 - Page 4

The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.

The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.

Rumi

Heart, Mirrors, Infinite Beauty

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Rumi

Healing, I Hate You, Roots

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

Rumi

Spiritual, Hurt, Darkness

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.50, Penguin UK

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

Rumi

Expectations, Heaven, Negotiation

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.

Appear as you are, or be as you appear.

Rumi

"Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey".

Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.

Rumi

Mirrors, Faces, Looks

Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

Rumi

Heart, Tongue, Lips

When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated.

Rumi

Light, Return, Source

You are more valuable than both heaven and earth. What else can I say? You don’t know your own worth.

Rumi

Heaven, Earth, Valuable

Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.

Rumi

Running, Long, Safety

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

Rumi

Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

A seeker of Truth looks beyond the apparent and contemplates the hidden.

Rumi

Looks, Contemplating, Seekers

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Rumi

Love, Inspirational, Relationship

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.148, Penguin UK

Don't dismiss the heart, even if it's filled with sorrow. God's treasures are buried in broken hearts.

Rumi

Heart, Broken, Sorrow

This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.

Rumi

Silence, Needs, Moments

Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again.

Rumi

Yesterday Is Gone, Stories, Today

Rumi (2018). “The Spiritual Poems of Rumi”, p.107, Wellfleet

Don't regret what's happened. If it's in the past, LET IT GO. Don't even remember it!

Rumi

Regret, Past, Let It Go

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.

Rumi

Ocean, Rivers, Silence

"The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 18: "The Three Fish", p. 196, 1995.