Jalal-Uddin Rumi
» Arts and Artists » “Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about. He’s not interested in how things look different in moonlight.”
» Beauty » “Let the beauty we love be what we do.”
» Death and Dying » “I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”
» Eternity » “The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.”
» Heart » “Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more — more unseen forms become manifest to him.”
» Love » “Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.”
» Love » “Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.”
» Pleasure » “You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.”
» Reason » “Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun.”
» Spirit and Spirituality » “Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.”
» Spirit and Spirituality » “Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.”
