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Rumi

Rumi's Little Book of Life

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  • Chella Floreshas quoted7 years ago
    Do not stir the water if you want to see
    the reflection of the moon and the stars.
  • layanosanihas quoted5 years ago
    Each time a thought enters your heart

    treat it as an honored guest, your worth

    is shown by the thoughts you entertain
  • layanosanihas quoted5 years ago
    Do not grieve over past joys, be sure

    they will reappear in another form.
  • layanosanihas quoted5 years ago
    Why do you seek water

    when you are the stream?
  • Dana Sundetbaevahas quoted6 years ago
    This body is a guesthouse
    each morning someone new arrives.
    Welcome them all for they may be
    messengers from the invisible.
    Do not feel burdened by them
    or they may go back to non-existence.
    Each time a thought enters your heart
    treat it as an honored guest, your worth
    is shown by the thoughts you entertain.
    Embrace sorrowful thoughts for they
    sweep the house of your heart clean,
    scatter the withered leaves, and pull out
    the twisted roots, preparing the ground
    for the new shoots of joy.
    What sorrow takes away from the heart
    it replaces with something better.
    Without the fury of thunder and lightning
    the plants will be scorched by the sun.
    Be grateful for all you receive,
    good and bad alike, for it may be a gift
    from the treasury of Spirit that will bring
    the fulfillment of your most secret desire.
  • Dana Sundetbaevahas quoted6 years ago
    You may be proud and conceited but
    you cannot impress the sun by flirting.
    Stop walking in your own shadow
    wallowing in your foolish thoughts.
    Raise your head, look at the sun, walk
    among the flowers, become a human being.
    Do not dwell in darkness like a night bird
    prey for the monsters of your imagination.
    Get up and seek the light, look toward the su
  • Daria Zaytsevahas quoted7 years ago
    What sorrow takes away from the heart
    it replaces with something better.
  • Chella Floreshas quoted7 years ago
    The infinite green Garden of Love
    has many fruits beyond joy and sorrow.
    Love is forever green without spring
    without autumn.
  • Dana Sundetbaevahas quoted7 years ago
    Mowlana Jalal ad-Din Balkhi-Rumi first honed his understanding of the concept of the divine by immersing himself in the disciplines of theology, philosophy, and law. An industrious student of jurisprudence who devoted his early years to the study of the revelations and traditions of prophets, with apparently little time for poets and their wares, was transformed in his late thirties into one of the most commanding and influential practitioners of poetry, to the extent that his fame is no longer limited to his homeland
  • Dana Sundetbaevahas quoted7 years ago
    In their translations, we understand that Rumi's God is not in the mosque, the monastery, or the fire-temple, but resides in the House of Intoxication, built in a lush Garden of Illumination, where a ladder of love leads to the divine. We learn that Rumi's God is not there to punish but is there to love and to rescue the Soul, the Heart, and the Spirit. The only “right commanded” by Rumi is that the mirror of the heart be polished of tarnish and the only “wrong forbidden” by him is
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