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50 Inspirational Rumi Quotes That Will Enlighten Your Mind, Heart And Soul

Words of wisdom from a spiritual master. 
Rania Naim
July 26, 2016
“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“My sweet heart,
you have aroused my passion,
your touch has filled me with desire,
I am no longer separate from you,
these are precious moments,
I beseech you,
don’t let me wait,”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance, when you're perfectly free.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi, Inspirational
“In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“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, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“First, when I was apart from you, this world did not exist, nor any other.
Second, whatever I was looking for was always you.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“Don't cover your face.
The world is a reeling, drunken body, and you are its intelligent head.
Don't hide the candle
of your clarity.
Stand up and burn
through the night, my prince.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. It will not lead you astray.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.
Ignore those that make you fearful
and sad, that degrade you
back toward disease and death.”
— Rumi, The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
Tagged: Love, Spirituality, Rumi
“Raise your words not your voice, it is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
— Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi
Tagged: Rumi, Soul, Spirituality
“Today I have found you
and those who laughed
and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking
as I did.”
— Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi
Tagged: Rumi, Soul, Spirituality
“I can sense your presence
in my heart
although you belong
to all the world

I wait
with silent passion
for one gesture
one glance
from you.”
— Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi
Tagged: Rumi, Soul, Spirituality
“In the silence of love you will find the spark of life”
— Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi
Tagged: Rumi, Soul, Spirituality
“Know that my beloved in hidden from everyone
Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs
Know that in my heart she is as clear as the moon
Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul”
— Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi
Tagged: Rumi, Soul, Spirituality
“When it's cold and raining,
you are more beautiful.

And the snow brings me
even closer to your lips.”
— Rumi, The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
Tagged: Rumi, Spirituality, Soul, Love
“Breathe into me. Close the language- door and open the love window. The moon
won't use the door, only the window.”
— Rumi, The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems
Tagged: Rumi, Spirituality, Soul, Love
“Gratitude is the wine of the soul. Go on. Get drunk!”
— Rumi, Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes & Poems on Life, Love & Death
Tagged: Rumi, Spirtuality, Gratitude
“I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.”
— Rumi, Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes & Poems on Life, Love & Death
Tagged: Rumi, Spirtuality, Gratitude
“Be silent. Only the hand of God can remove the burdens of your heart.”
— Rumi, Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes & Poems on Life, Love & Death
Tagged: Rumi, Spirtuality
“If you find me not within you, you will never find me. For I have been with you from the beginning of me.”
— Rumi, Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes & Poems on Life, Love & Death
Tagged: Rumi, Spirtuality
“And you. When will you begin that long journey into yourself? When?”
— Rumi, Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes & Poems on Life, Love & Death
Tagged: Rumi, Spirtuality
“You are searching for treasure but the real treasure is yourself.”
— Rumi, Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes & Poems on Life, Love & Death
Tagged: Rumi, Spirtuality
“When love itself comes to kiss you, don’t hold back.”
— Rumi, Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes & Poems on Life, Love & Death
Tagged: Rumi, Spirtuality