A man or a woman is said to be absorbed when the water has total control of him, and he no control of the water. A swimmer moves around willfully. An absorbed being has no will but the water's going. Any word or act is not really personal, but the way the water has of speaking or doing. As when you hear a voice coming out of a wall, and you know that it's not the wall talking, but someone inside, or perhaps someone outside echoing off the wall. Saints are like that. They've achieved the condition of a wall, or a door.
RumiYesterday was glory and joy. Today, a blackened burn everywhere. On the record of my life, these two days will be put down as one
RumiVery little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.
RumiSilence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.
RumiMuhammad says, 'Love of one's country is a part of the faith.' But don't take that literally! Your real 'country' is where you're heading, not where you are. Don't misread that hadith.
RumiThe Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.
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