Rumi Wisdom Quotes

#1. The spirit is the mirror; the body is the rust.
(Divan-i-Shamsi Tabriz)

Idries Shah

#2. A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,
cut holes in it, and called it a human being.
Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony
of parting, never mentioning the skill
that gave it life as a flute

Rumi

#3. The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#4. Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

Idries Shah

#5. A short time in the presence of the Friends (the Sufis) is better than a hundred years' sincere, obedient dedication.

Idries Shah

#6. Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

Idries Shah

#7. Do not seek water, get thirst.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#8. It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).

Idries Shah

#9. Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient Indian man named Vyasa.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man ... therefore increase your necessity.

Idries Shah

#11. Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.

Rumi

#12. Wisdom is like the rain.
It's supply is unlimited, but it comes down according to what the occasion requires -
in winter and spring, in summer and autumn,
always in due measure, more or less,
but the source of that rain is the oceans itself, which has no limits.

Rumi

#13. Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained

Idries Shah

#14. Even if false gold makes a man happy:
At the mint it will be identified.

Idries Shah

#15. And Rumi tells us, 'Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue'.

Idries Shah

#16. Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.

Idries Shah