Rumi Quotes

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life.

We are aspects of Divinity, in the process of knowing ourselves experientially.

You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

I believe there is a spirit within us, which we nurture based upon our efforts and what we bring to the world. But it doesn't come from the outside; it comes from the inside.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They're going outside and trying everything. They don't realize that it's right inside themselves.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.