Jalaluddin Rumi
"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."
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"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house,that bowl of silence."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"And watch two men washing clothes,one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved. And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there'The lover replied, 'It is I.''Go hence,' returned the voice;'there is no room within for thee and me.'Then came the lover a second time and knocked and again the voice demanded,'Who is there'He answered, 'It is thou.''Enter,' said the voice, 'for I am within."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"My friend, you thought you lost Him;that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him,and haven't searched within your own house."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you,but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep!You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep!People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!"
Jalaluddin Rumi
"Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"Lovers find secret placesinside this violent worldwhere they make transactions with beauty."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as a plant and rose to animal,I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"
Jalaluddin Rumi
"If you are seeking, seek us with joy For we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else But to the love of those who are clear joy,Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –Do not go in the direction of darkness –I tell you: suns exist."
Jalaluddin Rumi
"You are an ocean in a drop of dew,all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then,these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for,hoping they will make you more alive?"
Jalaluddin Rumi
"A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute"
Jalaluddin Rumi
"Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure."
Jalaluddin Rumi
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