Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. — John of the Cross
The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God. — Rumi
There is only one royal road for the spiritual journey...Love — Sathya Sai Baba
Through love the devil becomes an angel.
Through love stones become soft as butter.
Through love grief is like delight.
Through love demons become the servants of God. — Rumi
Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers. — Hafez
God and devotee are bound for ever in ropes of love — Shri Radhe Maa
Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Love is my religion - I could die for it. — John Keats
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. — Rumi
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr. — Heinrich Suso
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine. — Rumi
The supreme state of human love is...the unity of one soul in two bodies. — Sri Aurobindo
Through your love
existence and nonexistence merge.
All opposites unite.
All that is profane
becomes sacred again. — Rumi
Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue. — Hafez
Short Sufi Love Quotes
Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life. — Elif Safak
In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion. — Rumi
Love is timeless....
Death does not separate the lover from the beloved. — Kahlil Gibran
Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls — Rumi
Sufi Love Image Quotes
Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Love is the bridge between you and everything. — Rumi
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
Sufi Quotes
When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. — Rumi
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. — Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. — Rumi
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart. — Rumi
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear. — Rumi
If I repent now will God forgive me?
No, but if God forgives you, you will repent. — Rabia Basri
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves — Hazrat Inayat Khan
May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him. — Rabia Basri
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come. — Rumi
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames — Rumi
Inspirational Sufi Quotes
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? — Rumi
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. — Rumi
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself. — Rumi
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? — Rumi
Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love. — Rumi
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away. — Rumi
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. — Rumi
Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being. — Rumi
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. — Rumi
Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see. — Rumi
Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. — Kahlil Gibran
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. — Rumi
From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of the major world faiths, but I was particularly enthralled by the Sufi tradition, the mystical tradition of Islam, which is so open to other religious faiths. — Karen Armstrong
They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls? — Rumi
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear. — Rumi
Sufi Wisdom Quotes
If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death. — Habib Umar bin Hafiz
Asking good questions is half of learning. — Elijah Muhammad
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart — Rumi
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it. — Bayazid Bastami
Happy are those who find fault with themselves instead of finding fault with others. — Muhammad
If someone remarks "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man. — Sufyan al-Thawri
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart. — Rumi
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. — Rumi
Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death. — Wasif Ali Wasif
I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. — Rumi
Rumi Poetry Quotes
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
You think of yourself as a citizen of the universe. You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out of this dust you have created a personal image, and have forgotten about the essence of your true origin — Rumi
Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty. — Rumi
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God. — Rumi
On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter. — Rumi
Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend. — Rumi
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able to express practically all aspects of the spiritual life and our existential situation in the world today as human beings in beautiful Persian poetry. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago. — Hafez Nazeri
If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s poetry is really remarkable. — Huston Smith
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. — Robert Bly
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them. — Rumi
Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you. — Rumi
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there. — Rumi
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. — Rumi
Travel brings power and love back into your life. — Rumi
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. — Rumi
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one. — Rumi
Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent. — Rumi
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. — Rumi
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky — Rumi
I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star. — Rumi
Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it. — Rumi
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. — Rumi
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open? — Rumi
Now is the time to unite the Soul and the world. — Rumi
Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself — Rumi
I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One. — Rumi
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think. — Rumi
Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty. — Rumi
Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being. — Rumi
Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows. — Rumi
In fact many Hindu yogis and Sufis met, they became friends, they spoke about the knowledge and love of God; about all the similarities that exist. And then the simplicity of Islam, the fact these people practiced what they preached brought many, many Hindus into Islam. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all. — Rumi
Lose your soul in God's Love...
I swear there is no other way ! — Rumi
The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love. — Idries Shah
In your light I learn how to love. — Rumi
Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere? — Rumi
Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge. — Rumi
You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you. — Rumi
In your beauty, how to make poems. — Rumi
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