Quotes by Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

"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?"

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on death
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"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."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on eternity   

"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."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on art
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"Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on love
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"Only from the heart Can you touch the sky."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on love
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"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."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on pleasure
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"Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on art   

"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."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on reason   

"Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on spirituality
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"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."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on spirituality   

"Let the beauty we love be what we do."

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on beauty
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"I burnish bright the mirror of my heart until at last, reflected for my rapture, the Self's eternal beauty appears. "

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin on self