Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207 – 1273)
Persian philosopher, theologian, poet, teacher, and founder of the Mevlevi order of Sufism; also known as Mevlana, Jalaluddin Rumi, or simply Rumi.
When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.
Learn from Ali how to fight
without your ego participating.
God's lion did nothing
that didn't originate
from his deep center.
If you are irritated by every rub,
how will your mirror be polished?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
every success depends upon focusing the heart.
God's joy moved from unmarked box to unmarked box,
from cell to cell.
We talk about this and that. There’s no rest except on these branching moments.
This is what is signified by the words An? l-?aqq, "I am God." People imagine that it is a presumptuous claim, whereas it is really a presumptuous claim to say Ana 'l-'abd, "I am the slave of God"; and An? l-?aqq, "I am God" is an expression of great humility. The man who says Ana 'l-'abd, "I am the servant of God" affirms two existences, his own and God's, but he that says An? l-?aqq, "I am God" has made himself non-existent and has given himself up and says "I am God", that is, "I am naught, He is all; there is no being but God's." This is the extreme of humility and self-abasement.
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
This dance is the joy of existence.
Christ is the population of the world,
and every object as well. There is no room
for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing
when sweet water is everywhere?
This
that we are now
created the body, cell by cell,
like bees building a honeycomb.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did
about the future. Forget the future.
I'd worship someone who could do that.
Do not believe in an absurdity
no matter who says it.
There is a community of the spirit
Join it, and feel the delight
of walking in the noisy street,
and being the noise.
Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.
Quit acting like a wolf, and feel
the shepherd's love filling you.
Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,
Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.
Lovers think they are looking for each other,
but there is only one search: wandering
This world is wandering that, both inside one
transparent sky. In here
there is no dogma and no heresy.