Rumi Body Quotations

There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it.

You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that.

I made an oath to myself: as long as I live as long as my soul remains in this body I won't deviate from the right way but later I looked to my left and then to my right and I saw our beloved everywhere how could I make a wrong turn?

I am in Love with Love and Love is in love with me. My body is in Love with the soul and the soul is in Love with my body. I opened my arms to Love and Love embraced me like a lover.

Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

The ocean of the body crashes against the ocean of the heart. Between them is a barrier they cannot cross.

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in search of that Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek that.

Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor-- Why talk of anything else?

The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them.

Behead yourself!... Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.

The body itself is to reveal the light that's blazing inside your Presence.

The body is not hidden from the soul, nor is the soul hidden from the body, and yet the soul is not for everyone to see.

Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.

If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.

The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic.

A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.

Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.

if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow

Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.

Your body is woven from the Light of Heaven.

Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.

Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.