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 roads to the shore.
RumiThis discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
RumiThe spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before.
RumiIn things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.
RumiYou try to be faithful And sometimes you're cruel. You are mine. Then, you leave. Without you, I can't cope. And when you take the lead, I become your footstep. Your absence leaves a void. Without you, I can't cope. You have disturbed my sleep, You have wrecked my image. You have set me apart. Without you, I can't cope.
RumiFree of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting.
RumiYou left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence, or in absence. Both mourn, the angels, the prophets, and this sadness I feel has taken from me the taste of language, so that I cannot say the flavor of my being apart.
RumiAll religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light.
RumiAllah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind invisible, and the dust manifest. you see the dust whirling, but how can the dust rise by itself? you see the foam, but not the ocean. invoke Him with deeds, not words; for deeds are real and will save you in the infinite-life.
RumiThere is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.
RumiLove possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.
RumiIf you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.
RumiA wealth you cannot imagine flows through you. Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence.
RumiDoing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.
RumiHow can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.
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