Rumi Quotes

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)

The door to the invisible must be visible.

Our real reality is beyond the five senses.

How you mean? How you mean? What you know about the team? You just know what you get told girl I see behind the scene

Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.

It's quite simple really. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away until they simple no longer matter. That is why Elousia is such a wonderful name. God, who is the ground of all being, dwells in, around, and through all things-ultimately emerging as the real-and appearances that mask that reality will fall away.

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal?

The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reflect everything that seems to be hidden; and like a mirror, they also reflect the person looking into them.

Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.

All is not done when we have spoken to God by prayer; our petitions are to be pursued with real endeavours.

The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.

We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.

Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?

The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.

Welcome to the Desert of the Real.