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I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty. ~ Rumi
If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread.
If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul.
If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek. ~ Rumi
We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts. ~ Rumi
Those who practice Love have neither Religion or Status. ~ Rumi
We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect. ~ Rumi
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. ~ Rumi
You are the source of the sun.
And I am the willow's shadow.
Oh, you have struck me on the head,
Wretch that I am, on fire am I. ~ Rumi
These words are for the sake of those who need words to understand. But as for those who understand without words, what use have they for speech? The heavens and earth are words to them, sent forth themselves from the Word of God. Whoever hears a whisper, what need have they for shouting and screaming? ~ Rumi
Smell the aroma of beautiful food, then
go to the latrine and sniff. "What happened to you?" Your dung will answer,
"My beauty was a lure, a trick to get inside you."
Every matter particle does the same
enchantment. Try to see the beginning and end at once. Would you willingly wear manacles
just because they're made of gold? Admire the genius of an artist, but also watch what
happens to him or her in old age, how the expert craftsman's craft diminishes. ~ Rumi
Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain. ~ Rumi
You think the shadow is the substance. ~ Rumi
TWENTY SMALL GRAVES
There was a woman who bore a child almost every year, but the children never lived longer
than six months. Usually after three or four months they would die. She grieved long and
publicly. "I take on the work of pregnancy for nine months, but the joy vanishes quicker
than a rainbow." Twenty children went like that, in fevers to their small graves. One night
she had a revelation. She saw the place of unconditional love, call it the garden or source
of gardens. The physical eye cannot see its unseeable light. Lamp, green flower, these
are just comparisons, so that some of the love-bewildered may catch a fragrance. The woman
saw pure grace and, drunk with the seeing, fell to the ground. Those who have the vision said
then, "This morning meal is for those who rise with sincere devotion. The tragedies you've
had came from other times when you did not take refuge." "Lord, give me more grief.
Tear me to pieces, if it leads here." She said this and walked into the presence
she had seen. Her children were all there, "Lost to me," she cried, "but not to you."
Without this great grieving no one can enter the spirit. ~ Rumi
No prayer is complete without presence. ~ Rumi
There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen. - Rumi ~ Akemi G
Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore. ~ Rumi
Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other. ~ Rumi
Somewhere along the way, there develops within the soul a yearning that can no longer be ignored, a craving for the great love affair. We feel it drawing ever closer. It is the greatest of them all. It cannot fail. It is all consuming. It is incomparable. It is the love affair with our own true nature and the source from which it comes. The desire is in all of us but, more often than not, it is ignored for other interests. We wrestle with each interest, trying to make it work, growing with each adventure until the light has grown bright enough for us to reach for it. ~ Donna Goddard
Drink all your passion,
and be a disgrace. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
The source is within you. And this whole world is springing up from it. ~ Rumi
You erased my famine, unpicked my anger
Your energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;
Now I am alive with the ore of words pouring
From my lips like molten lava glittering with joy. ~ Rumi
The real beloved is your beginning and your end.
When you find that one,
you'll no longer expect anything else ~ Rumi
The Soul is a stranger trying to find a Home
somewhere that is not a where. ~ Rumi
No more holding back.
Be reckless.
Tell your Love to everybody. ~ Rumi
Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name. ~ Rumi
Ten years ago a book appeared in France called D'Une foi l'autre, les conversions a l'Islam en Occident. The authors, both career journalists, carried out extensive interviews with new Muslims in Europe and America. Their conclusions are clear. Almost all educated converts to Islam come in through the door of Islamic spirituality. In the middle ages, the Sufi tariqas were the only effective engine of Islamisation in Muslim minority areas like Central Asia, India, black Africa and Java; and that pattern is maintained today.
Why should this be the case? Well, any new Muslim can tell you the answer. Westerners are in the first instance seeking not a moral path, or a political ideology, or a sense of special identity - these being the three commodities on offer among the established Islamic movements. They lack one thing, and they know it - the spiritual life. Thus, handing the average educated Westerner a book by Sayyid Qutb, for instance, or Mawdudi, is likely to have no effect, and may even provoke a revulsion. But hand him or her a collection of Islamic spiritual poetry, and the reaction will be immediately more positive. It is an extraordinary fact that the best-selling religious poet in modern America is our very own Jalal al-Din Rumi. Despite the immeasurably different time and place of his origin, he outsells every Christian religious poet.
Islam and the New Millennium ~ Abdal Hakim Murad
Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad. ~ Rumi
Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything. ~ Rumi
THIS TORTURE
Why should we tell you our love stories
when you spill them together like blood in the dirt?
Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor,
or a fire we can't see,
but how does saying that
push us through the top of the head into
the light above the head?
Love is not
an iron pot, so this boiling energy
won't help.
Soul, heart, self.
Beyond and within those
is one saying,
How long before I'm free of this torture! ~ Rumi
Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace. ~ Rumi
EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI
When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men. ~ Idries Shah
I am ashamed
to call this love human
and afraid of God
to call it divine ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
This mirror inside me shows. I can't say what, but I can't not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere. ~ Rumi
The Heart of the matter is Soul, nothing else ... ~ Rumi
You see yourself as a shipwreck, but we see your treasure glowing inside, beneath the oceans in your eyes. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
I am smiling at myself today There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left Free from all desire I sit quietly like Earth My silent cry echoes like thunder Throughout the universe I am not worried about it I know it will be heard by no one Except me. ~ Rumi
World power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters. ~ Rumi
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being. ~ Rumi
I was there in the beginning and I was the spirit of love. ~ Rumi
Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then it may be that patience and time may produce, out of the spectrum-viewing sight, true vision, and you will behold colors other than these mortal hues, you will see pearls instead of stones. Pearls, did I say? Nay more, you will become a sea, you will become a sun traveling the sky. ~ Rumi
Learn the truth, my friend, but be careful not to make a fetish out of your truths. ~ Elif Shafak
You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Why do you worry? ~ Rumi
Muhammad once was talking to a crowd
of chieftains, princes with great influence,
when a poor blind man interrupted him.
Muhammad frowned and said to the man,
"Let me attend to these visitors.
This is a rare chance,
whereas you are already my friend.
We'll have ample time."
Then somebody nearby said, "That blind man
may be worth a hundred kings. Remember the proverb, Human beings are mines."
World-power means nothing. Only the unsayable, jeweled inner life matters.
Muhammad replied, "Do not think that I'm concerned with being acknowledged by these authorities.
If a beetle moves toward rosewater, it proves
that the solution is diluted. Beetles
love dung, not rose essence.
If a coin is eager to be tested
by the touchstone, that coin
itself may be a touchstone.
A thief loves the night.
I am day. I reveal essences.
A calf thinks God is a cow.
A donkey's theology changes
when someone new pets it
and gives it what it wants.
I am not a cow, or thistles for camels
to browse on. People who insult me
are only polishing the mirror ~ Rumi
Free will exists so free will can be given up freely. Such a person feels
no genuine delight if he or she is not drained empty. With all the delicious food and drink
in the world, true pleasure comes only with the extinction of pleasure and its replacement by
soul delight.
Those who have gone through fana into baqa, through annihilation into
that which has always been, become all body and all consciousness. With dissolving
begins some overwhelming joy. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
Love is a river. Drink from it. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~ Rumi
Even a speck of love should not go unappreciated, because, as Rumi said, love is the water of life. ~ Elif Shafak
When someone beats a rug with a stick, he is not beating the rug – his aim is to get rid of the dust. Your inward is full of dust from the veil of 'I'-ness, and that dust will not leave all at once. With every cruelty and every blow, it departs little by little from the heart's face, sometimes in sleep and sometimes in wakefulness. ~ Rumi
I opened my arms to Love and Love embraced me like a Lover ~ Rumi
Where you are, whatever your condition is; Always try to be a lover. ~ Rumi
I look into your eyes & see the universe not yet born. ~ Rumi
Here is a story of a young prince who suddenly sees that the ambitious world is a big game of king
of the mountain, a boy scrambling up a pile of sand to call out, "I am king"; then another
throws him off to make his momentary claim, then another and so on. ~ Rumi
There is no way into Presence except through a love exchange. ~ Rumi
You have forgotten the One
who doesn't care about ownership,
who doesn't try to turn a profit
from every human exchange. ~ Rumi
Each night the moon kisses secretly
the lover who counts the stars ~ Rumi
For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed. ~ Rumi
With love you don't bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face. ~ Rumi
FORM IS ECSTATIC
There is a shimmering excitement in being sentient and shaped. The
caravan master sees his camels lost in it, nose to tail, as he himself is,
his friend, and the stranger coming toward them. A gardener watches the
sky break into song, cloud wobbly with what it is. Bud, thorn, the same.
Wind, water, wandering this essential state. Fire, ground, gone. That's
how it is with the outside. Form is ecstatic. Now imagine the inner:
soul, intelligence, the secret worlds!
And don't think the garden loses its
ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there rioutous.
If someone bumps you in the street, don't be angry. Everyone careens
about in this surprise. Respond in kind. Let the knots untie, turbans
be given away. Someone drunk on this could drink a donkeyload a night.
Believer, unbeliever, cynic, lover, all combine in the spirit-form we are,
but no one yet is awake like Shams. ~ Rumi
The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping. ~ Rumi
Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together ~ Idries Shah
Fasting is an amazing thing. It gives people heart and soul. ~ Rumi
Be wild and crazy and drunk with Love,
if you are too careful, LOVE will not find you. ~ Rumi
When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole. ~ Rumi
Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.
Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets.
Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless.
Although I may try to describe love,
when I experience it, I am speechless.
Although I may try to write about love, I am rendered helpless.
My pen breaks, and the paper slips away
at the ineffable place where lover loving and loved are one.
Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love. ~ Rumi
Either give me more wine or leave me alone. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence. ~ Rumi
Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul. ~ Rumi
The whole business of love is to drown in the sea. ~ Rumi
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction. ~ Rumi
Let silence take you to the core of life. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
Today, you have been inside my eyes all day.
I am confused, upside down.
You are so near and so obvious,
I feel apart from you.
I am so aware of you,
I know nothing. ~ Rumi
God does not look at your outer forms,
but at the love within your love. ~ Rumi
BOOK BEAUTY
Here's the end of that story about the old woman who wanted to lure a man with strange
cosmetics. She made a paste of pages from the Qur'an to fill the deep creases on her face and
neck with. This is not about an old woman, dear reader. It's about you, or anyone who tries
to use books to make themselves attractive. There she is, sticking scripture, thick with
saliva, on her face. Of course, the bits keep falling off. "The devil," she yells, and
he appears! "This is a trick I've never seen. You don't need me. You are yourself a troop
of demons!" So people steal inspired words to get compliments. Don't bother. Death comes
and all talking, stolen or not, stops. Pity anyone unfamiliar with silence when that happens.
Polish your heart with mediation and quietness. Let the inner life grow generous and handsome
like Joseph. Zuleika did that and her "old woman's spring cold snap" turned to mid-July. Dry
lips wet from within. Ink is not rouge. Let language lie bygone. Now is where love breathes. ~ Rumi
The water has a Water that is driving it;
The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it. ~ Rumi
The eye of the intellect is drunk with You, the wheeling galaxy is humble before You, the ear of ecstasy is in Your hand; nothing happens without You.
The soul is bubbling with You, the heart imbibes from You, the intellect bellows in rapture; nothing happens without You. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God. ~ Rumi
Carry your baggage towards silence , when you seek the signs of the way. ~ Rumi
Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight is blind
and try to see a treasure in everyone. ~ Rumi
Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening. ~ Rumi
Every need brings what's needed.
Pain bears its cure like a child.
Having nothing produces provisions.
Ask a difficult question,
And the marvelous answer appears. ~ Rumi
When you notice a fault in your neighbour, search for the same in yourself. ~ Rumi
Finding faults is for those with tired minds. ~ Rumi
Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you.
Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon. ~ Rumi
Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence ~ Rumi
Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. ~ Rumi
There comes a holy
and transparent time
when every touch
of beauty
opens the heart
to tears.
This is the time
the Beloved of heaven
is brought tenderly on earth.
This is the time
of the opening
of the ROSE. ~ Rumi
From 'A Bowl Fallen From the Roof'
Be quiet now and wait.
It may be that the ocean one,
the one we desire so to move into and become,
desires us out here on land a little longer,
going our sundry ways to the shore.
-Rumi ~ Coleman Barks
Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing. ~ Rumi
In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal. ~ Rumi
If someone asks,
But what is Love?
Answer,
Dissolving the will. ~ Rumi
When ink joins with a pen, then the blank paper
can say something. Rushes and reeds must be woven
to be useful as a mat. If they weren't interlaced, the wind would blow them away. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
To Love is to be God.
Never will a Lover's chest
feel any sorrow.
Never will a Lover's robe
be touched by mortals.
Never will a Lover's body
be found buried in the earth.
To Love is to be God. ~ Rumi
Appear as you are, Be as you appear. ~ Rumi
It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him. ~ Rumi
You came suddenly and stole three things from me. The patience from my heart, the colour from my face and the sleep from my eyes. ~ Rumi
Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you. ~ Rumi
Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else. ~ Rumi
Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl! ~ Rumi
O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God. ~ Rumi
Men and women run away from every goal, whether worldly or spiritual, because they overestimate the initial task. The proper way is a bit at a time. It is the same if someone eats too much; they should diminish it daily by a small bit, gradually. In that way, before a year or two have passed, they will have cut down what they eat by half, reducing it in such a way that their body does not notice. So it is with worship, withdrawing into solitude, attending to the service of God, and prayer. When a person enters upon the Way of God, for a while their prayers will be short. But after that, if they pray with their whole heart, their prayers will go on and on without end. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi
Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another ~ Rumi