Rumi Dust Quotations

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER.

You think of yourself as a citizen of the universe. You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out of this dust you have created a personal image, and have forgotten about the essence of your true origin

You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself - that leads to transformation of dust into pure gold.

For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back.

You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.

Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.

I am the dust in the sunlight, I am the ball of the sun . . . I am the mist of morning, the breath of evening . . . . I am the spark in the stone, the gleam of gold in the metal . . . . The rose and the nightingale drunk with its fragrance. I am the chain of being, the circle of the spheres, The scale of creation, the rise and the fall. I am what is and is not . . . I am the soul in all.

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

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.

We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust... The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.

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.