Spiritual Sufism quotes
Jelaluddin Rumi quotes
Beyond our ideas of right-doing and
wrong-doing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase 'each other'
doesn't make sense any more.
Jelaluddin Rumi
in Coleman Barks The Essential Rumi (Haper San Franscisco, 1995,) p. 36
Your task is not
to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
You've no idea how
hard I've looked for a gift to bring You.
Nothing
seemed right. What's the point of bringing gold
to the gold mine, or water to the Ocean. Everything I came
up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It's no good
giving my heart and my soul because you already have these.
So- I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and
remember me.
Jalaluddin Rumi
REBIRTH
I
died as a mineral and became a plant;
I died as a plant and
rose to animal;
I died as animal and I was a man.
Why
should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall
die as man to soar
With angels blest. But even from an angel
I
must pass on: all except God must perish.
When I have
sacrificed my angel soul,
I shall become what no mind ever
conceived.
Those
who don't feel this Love
pulling them like a river,
those
who don't drink dawn
like a cup of spring water
or
take in sunset like supper,
those who don't want to change,
let them sleep.
This Love is beyond the study of theology,
that
old trickery and hypocrisy.
I you want to improve your mind
that way,
sleep on.
I've given up on my
brain.
I've torn the cloth to shreds
and thrown it
away.
If you're not completely naked,
wrap
your beautiful robe of words
around you,
and
sleep.