A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity. — Lawrence Kushner
Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers. — Hafez
The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know. — Richard Rohr
The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator. — Richard Rohr
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language. — Meister Eckhart
The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us. — George Harrison
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged. — Rumi
In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all. — Karl Rahner
There is a Soul within the Soul. Seek it out. There is a Treasure in your mountain. Seek it Out. A mystic in motion, if that's what you are, don't seek out there; seek inside. — Rumi
He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe. — Michael Harner
It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite. — Yehudi Menuhin
Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker. — Buddha
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
Sufi Love Quotes
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
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames — Rumi
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you. — Rumi
Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. — Rumi
Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself. — Rumi
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? — Rumi
The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it. — Bayazid Bastami
Come out of the circle of time
And into the circle of love. — Rumi
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
Inspirational Sufi Quotes
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. — Rumi
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
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
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
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart — Rumi
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
If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart. — Rumi
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. — Rumi
Sufi Quotes
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
Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are. — Rumi
When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth. — Rumi
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. — Rumi
The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart. — Rumi
Love is the bridge between you and everything. — Rumi
Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you. — Rumi
Mysticism Quotes
When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful. — Caroline Myss
Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering. — Caroline Myss
Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner. — Edgar Cayce
Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day. — Edgar Cayce
NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. — Osho
Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone. — Ken Wilber
When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist. — Albert Hofmann
The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being. — Wassily Kandinsky
Healing does not come through intense affirmation of divinity, or by simply pouring out love and the expression of a vague mysticism.It comes through mastering an exact science of contact, impression, of invocation plus an understanding of the subtle apparatus of the etheric vehicle. — Alice Bailey
Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers you. — Margaret Mary Alacoque
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
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
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
Mystical Quotes
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic. — Van Morrison
All you may know of heaven or hell is within your own self. — Edgar Cayce
The mystics ask you to take nothing on mere belief. Rather, they give you a set of experiments to test in your own awareness and experience. The laboratory is your own mind, the experiment is meditation. — Ken Wilber
Our music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. There is a line which people cross that turns it into some magical, mystical realm, for which I dont claim responsibility and dont hold any great truck with. — David Gilmour
What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity. — Heraclitus
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. — Albert Einstein
Most rightists wanted an autocracy without asterisk – that is, a mystical unity of monarch and folk – and they rejected anything more than a consultative Duma, but the autocrat himself had created the Duma. — Stephen Kotkin
The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time -- a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken. — Frederick Lenz
Never blame another person for your personal choices - you are still the one who must live out the consequences of your choices. — Caroline Myss
There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God. — Aleister Crowley
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
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
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. — Rumi
Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. — Rumi
Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself — Rumi
Dance when you're perfectly free. — Rumi
Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake. — Huston Smith
O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all. — Rumi
In your light I learn how to love. — Rumi
I belong to the beloved. Have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know. ...First, Last, Outer, Inner, only that breath breathing. HUMAN BEING. — Rumi
Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come. — Rumi
You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you. — Rumi
I don't know what to make of the Muslim mystics, especially those who have come to be known as the Sufis. What do they experience in their mystic experiences? Could they have encountered the same God we do in our Christian mysticism? — Tony Campolo
It's quite common for a Sufi mystic to cry in ecstasy that he's neither a Jew, a Christian, nor a Muslim. He is at home equally in a synagogue, a mosque, a temple, or a church because when one's glimpsed the divine, one's left these man-made distinctions behind. — Karen Armstrong
You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism. — Florence Nightingale
A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked.... For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found sad. One day they asked him, 'What is the secret of your happiness?' He said, 'There is no secret. Every morning when I wake up, I meditate for five minutes and I say to myself, 'Listen, now there are two possibilities: you can be miserable, or you can be blissful. Choose.' And I always choose to be blissful.' — Osho
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