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[khalifa]

Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī

Born: September 30, 1207

Died: December 17, 1273, Konya, Turkey

A 13th-century Sufi mystic. (kind of odd to see this come out of islam's mystical enlightment tbh)

 

I really like these, Thought I'd share since it's enlightenment related, hopefully you guys could enjoy them as I did. Or perhaps share your best off (i'm aware of the other quote thread, although I wanted rumi to have his spotlight since these were in a notepad file for quite a while )

 

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"Whoever travels without a guide needs two hundred years for a two-days journey” - Rumi

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My birthplace is placelessness,

My sign is to have and give no sign.

You say you see my mouth, ears, eyes, nose;

they are not mine.

I am the life of life.

I am that cat, this stone, no one.

I have thrown duality away like an old dishrag,

I see and know all times and worlds,

As one, one, always one.

Rumi

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To meet my thousand thousand faces

I roam the world;

The dirtiest grass

Wears the sunlight of my skin:

I stand in this stream, myself, and laugh.

Rumi

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Seizing my life in your hands,

you thrashed it clean on the

savage rocks of Eternal Mind.

How its colors bled, until they grew white!

You smile and sit back; I dry in your sun.

Rumi

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If in hell I could hold one curl of your hair

I’d think the saints of heaven in torment.

Rumi

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Beyond our ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing,

there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

Rumi
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This being human is a guest house

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

some momentary awareness comes

as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house

empty of its furniture,

still treat each guest honorably.

He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,

meet them at the door laughing,

and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,

because each has been sent

as a guide from beyond.

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take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality. He is free ~ rumi

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The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear ~ Rumi

Let silence take you to the core of life ~ rumi

There is a voice that doesn't use words, Listen ~ rumi

Silence is the language of god, All else is poor translation ~ rumi

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Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor ~ rumi

What you seek is seeking you ~ Rumi

Don't grieve, Anything you lose comes back in another form ~ rumi

why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open? ~ Rumi

   
If you are irritated by every rub how will you be polished? ~ Rumi

There is a candle in your heart ready to be kindled, There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? ~ Rumi

"Don't you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds" ~ rumi

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With life as half taken breath, don't plant anything but love. ~ Rumi

Wear gratitude like a cloak, It will feed every corner of your life. ~ Rumi

 

You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop ~ Rumi

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I am not this hair,
I am not this skin,
I am the Soul
that lives within.

~ rumi

 

 

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Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu,Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen.
Not any religion or cultural system.

I am not from the east or the west, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all.
I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story.

My place is the placeless, a trace of the traceless.
Neither body or soul.

I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know,

first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.

 

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Define and narrow me, you starve yourself of yourself
Nail me down in a box of cold worlds, that box is your coffin.
I do not know who I am.
I am in astounding lucid confusion.
I am not a christian, I am not a jew, I am not a zoroastrian, And I am not even a Muslim.
I do not belong to the land, or any known or unknown sea
Nature cannot own or claim me, nor can heaven,
Nor can china or bulgaria,
My birthplace is placelessness
My sign is to have and give no sign
You say you see my mouth,ears,nose --- they are not mine.
I am the life of life
I am the cat, this stone, no one
I have thrown duality away like an old dishrag
I see and know all times and worlds,
As one, one, always one.
So what do i have to do to get you to admit who is speaking?
Admit it and change everything!
This is your own voice echoing off the walls of God.

 

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Edited January 27, 2018 by khalifa