Shams Rumi Quotes

#1. But the story didn't end there. Almost 800 years later, the spirits of Shams & Rumi are still alive today,whirling amid us somewhere ...

Elif Shafak

#2. Rumi and Shams taught us how to see the world with new eyes, how to find our place in the order of things, and how to extricate the true self trapped under layers of noise.

Jamila Hammad

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

Idries Shah

#4. Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#5. You who seek God, apart, apart The thing you seek, thou art, thou art. If you want to seek the Beloved's face. Polish the mirror, gaze into that space. These words were written by Rumi as a tribute for his master guru Shams of Tabriz.

Wayne W. Dyer

#6. Rumi and Shams bring to our lives the simple truth that we are not alone, that God really does care. And God's joyous love for each of us is rivaled only by Her divine sense of humor.

Jamila Hammad

#7. Shams was the wind that would blow the scholar's turban off from Rumi's head, and turn a quiet academic into an enthusiastic lover of God.

Cihan Okuyucu

#8. We had little idea that this was the beginning of a much greater journey towards finding our true self, with Rumi and Shams as our fearless guides.

Jamila Hammad

#9. I like to hope that Rumi's poems, even in translation, carry the essence of the transforming friendship of Rumi and Shams, that the sun can reappear, whole and radiant in any one of us at any moment.

Rumi