By love, bitter things are made sweet and copper turns to gold. By love, the sediment becomes clear and torment is removed. By love, the dead are made to live. By love, the sovereign is made a slave. Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207 – 1273)
Jalal al-Din Rumi Quote – “You’re water. We’re the millstone…”
You’re water. We’re the millstone. You’re wind. We’re dust blown up into shapes. You’re spirit. We’re the opening and closing of our hands. You’re the clarity. We’re this language that tries to say it. You’re joy. We’re all the different kinds of laughing. Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207 – 1273)
Jalal al-Din Rumi Quote – “Language does not touch the one who lives in each of us.”
Language does not touch the one who lives in each of us. Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207 – 1273)
Jalal al-Din Rumi Quote – “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you…”
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep. Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207 – 1273)
Jalal al-Din Rumi Quote – “If the Beloved is everywhere, the lover is a veil…”
If the Beloved is everywhere, the lover is a veil, but when living itself becomes the Friend, lovers disappear. Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207 – 1273)
Jalal al-Din Rumi Quote – “Waves broke. Awareness rose again and sent out a voice…”
Waves broke. Awareness rose again and sent out a voice. It always happens like this. Sea turns on itself and foams. With every foaming bit another body, another being takes form. And when the sea sends word, each foaming body melts immediately back to ocean breath. Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207 – 1273)
Jalal al-Din Rumi Quote – “When the ocean surges, don’t let me just hear it…”
When the ocean surges, don’t let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest! Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207 – 1273)
Jalal al-Din Rumi Quote – “Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice…”
And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. They seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there’s really only one work. Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207 – 1273)
Jalal al-Din Rumi Quote – “Don’t unstring the bow…”
Don’t unstring the bow, I am your four-feathered arrow that has not been used yet. I am a strong knifeblade word, not some if or maybe, dissolving in air. I am sunlight slicing the dark. Who made this night? A forge deep in the earth-mud. What is the body? Endurance. What is love? Gratitude. What is hidden in our chests? […]
Jalal al-Din Rumi Quote – “What is praised is one, so the praise is one too…”
One Song What is praised is one, so the praise is one too, many jugs being poured into a huge basin. All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. Sunlight looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it is […]