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Rumi Quotes about Reality

All Rumi Quotes Acting Anxiety Art Attitude Awakening Awareness Balance Beauty Belief Boundaries Change Character Children Choices Clarity Communication Community Compassion Conformity Consciousness Copper Country Courage Creation Dance Dancing Darkness Death Desire Destiny Devil Devotion Dignity Discipline Doubt Drinking Dying Earth Effort Ego Emptiness Encouragement Energy Envy Eternity Evil Faith Falling In Love Fate Fear Feelings Fighting Finding Love Finding Yourself Freedom Friendship Generosity Gentleness Giving Giving Up Glory God Gold Grace Gratitude Greed Grief Grieving Growth Happiness Hardship Harmony Hate Healing Heart Heaven Home House Humility Hurt Hypocrisy Ignorance Inspiration Inspirational Inspiring Integrity Intelligence Jesus Journey Joy Judging Just Dance Kindness Kissing Language Laughter Law Of Attraction Letting Go Life Life And Love Listening Loss Lost Love Love Love Life Lust Lying Madness Magic Making Love Manifestation Marriage Meditation Memories Mercy Mindfulness Moon Morning Motivational Mountain Nature Overcoming Pain Passion Past Peace Perfection Perspective Philosophy Positive Positive Thinking Positivity Praise Prayer Pride Purpose Quitting Rain Reading Reality quotes Recovery Reflection Regret Religion Resurrection Rings Risk Running Sadness Safety Self Love Shame Sickness Silence Singing Skins Sleep Solitude Son Sorrow Soul Spiritual Growth Spirituality Spring Struggle Success Suffering Sufism Sunrise Surrender Teaching Time Today Torture Travel True Love Trust Truth Understanding Unity Universe Vision Waiting Wall War Water Weakness Wealth Wine Winning Winter Wisdom Worry Worship Writing Yoga

Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you.

Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.115, Lulu.com

People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.

"The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 18: "The Three Fish", p. 200, 1995.