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“You have read in the text where They love him blends with He loves them. Those joining loves are both qualities of God. Fear is not. What characteristics do God and human beings have in common? What is the connection between what lives in time and what lives in eternity? If I kept talking about love, a hundred new combinings would happen, and still I would not say the mystery.” LoveGodEmpowering Book:The Essential Rumi Source: The Essential Rumi
“What does not come into man's imagination is called a "gift" because whatever passes through his imagination is in proportion to his aspiration and his worth. However, God's gift is in proportion to God's worth....no matter how much eyes have seen, ears heard, or minds conceived the gift you expect of Me, My gift is above and beyond all that.” GodGift Book:The Rumi Collection Source: The Rumi Collection
“All the tears which we creatures shed for Him are not tears as many think but pearls....” TearsPearls Book:The Rumi Collection Source: The Rumi Collection
“SUDDEN RESURRECTION! Endless mercy! Blazing fire in the thickets of thought! Today you came laughing Unlocking dungeons Came to the meek Like god’s grace and bounty You are the antechamber to the sun You are the hope’s prerequisite You are sought Seeker Terminus Principia You pulse in every chest adorn every idea then permit their realization Spirit- spring, irreplaceable Delight of action and cognition. All the rest is pretext, fraud- the former, illness; the latter, cure We’re jaundiced by that fraud Heart-set to slay an innocent Drunk, now on angel eyes Now on plain bread and soup Taste this intoxication, drop your ratiocination Savor these delectable Drop the debatables A little bread and greens Should not entail so much trouble *Ghazal 1” LoveGodSunGraceMercyIllness Book:Rumi: Swallowing the Sun: Poems Translated from Persian Source: Rumi: Swallowing the Sun: Poems Translated from Persian
“Infinite mercy flows continually But you're asleep and can't see it. The sleeper's robe goes on drinking river water While he frantically hunts mirages in dreams And runs continually here and there shouting, "There'll be water further on, I know!" It's this false thinking that blocks him From the path that leads to himself, By always saying, "Further on!" He's become estranged from "here": Because of a false fantasy He's driven from reality.” MercyPresentHere Author:Jalaluddin Rumi
“Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding. The two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birdwings.” SolitudeIntimacyExpansion And Contraction Author:Jalaluddin Rumi
“I felt I was drowning in my negativity. There was no hope of room for patience and no means of escape, no way to either repent or rebel I felt I could not undo the lock.” LostDarknessStuckSearching Book:The Rumi Collection Source: The Rumi Collection
“Life's waters flow from darkness. Search the darkness, don't run from it.” Darkness Book:The Rumi Collection Source: The Rumi Collection
“All people, all possible permutations of good, evil, thought, passion. The lamps are different, But the Light is the same.” PeopleLight Book:The Rumi Collection Source: The Rumi Collection