Top 100 Sufism Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.”

— Rumi

52. “Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself.”

— Rumi

53. “I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.”

— Rumi

54. “When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”

— Rumi

55. “Try something different. Surrender.”

— Rumi

56. “Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.”

— Rumi

57. “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

— Rumi

58. “Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.”

— Rumi

59. “Our death is our wedding with eternity.”

— Rumi

60. “It’s good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.”

— Rumi

61. “I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside.”

— Rumi

62. “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.”

— Rumi

63. “Let silence take you to the core of life.”

— Rumi

64. “I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.”

— Rumi

65. “Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.”

— Rumi

66. “Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being.”

— Rumi

67. “Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.”

— Rumi

68. “The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.”

— Rumi

69. “There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there’s another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.”

— Rumi

70. “Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.”

— Rumi

71. “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

72. “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”

— Rumi

73. “When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.”

— Rumi

74. “With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?”

— Rumi

75. “Knock, And He’ll open the door Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.”

— Rumi

76. “Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love.”

— Rumi

77. “Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

— Rumi

78. “Don’t you know yet? It is your Light that lights the worlds.”

— Rumi

79. “Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.”

— Rumi

80. “Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.”

— Rumi

81. “You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.”

— Rumi

82. “Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”

— Rumi

83. “With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.”

— Rumi

84. “What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.”

— Rumi

85. “There is a King Who is aware of every Mask you put on.”

— Rumi

86. “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

87. “Whatever you know, or don’t – only Love is real.”

— Rumi

88. “Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.”

— Rumi

89. “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

90. “Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?”

— Rumi

91. “Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.”

— Rumi

92. “If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.”

— Rumi

93. “Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there.”

— Rumi

94. “Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.”

— Rumi

95. “Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.”

— Rumi

96. “Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.”

— Rumi

97. “There’s courage involved if you want to become Truth.”

— Rumi

98. “I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me.”

— Rumi

99. “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”

— Rumi

100. “Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.”

— Rumi