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The Rumi Collection is a compilation of various translations of the poetry and prose of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi, a renowned figure in Sufi literature. The collection aims to provide readers with access to Rumi's spiritual and philosophical teachings, which have influenced both religious and secular thought over the centuries.
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“Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“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.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“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.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“May these vows and this marriage be blessed.”
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“May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.”
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“Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. If all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! Certain energies come only when you burn. If you long for belief, sit down in the fire! When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the arms of the Sea be secure. Who indeed should be so fortunate? An Ocean wooing a drop! In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“The cure for pain is in the pain.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman steals from others every day--is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“There are no edges to my loving now.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; to regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, to see beyond seeing itself, to reach and feel within the breast.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?
What do you know of Love except the name?
Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,
and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.
Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:
it has no interest in a disloyal companion.
The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:
that root must be cherished with all one's might.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi
“I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.”
Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi