Whoever finds love
beneath hurt and grief
disappears into emptiness
with a thousand new disguises
Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“
so your life will stay fresh.
Tags: life
Some Hindus have an elephant to show.
No one here has ever seen an elephant.
They bring it at night to a dark room.
One by one, we go in the dark and come out
saying how we experience the animal.
One of us happens to touch the trunk.
A water-pipe kind of creature.
Another, the ear. A strong, always moving
back and forth, fan-animal. Another, the leg.
I find it still, like a column on a temple.
Another touches the curve back.
A leathery throne. Another, the cleverest,
feels the tusk. A rounded sword made of porcelain.
He is proud of his description.
Each of us touches one place
and understands the whole in that way.
The palm and the fingers feeling in the dark
are how the senses explore the reality of the elephant.
If each of us held a candle there,
and if we went in together, we could see it.
Tags: rumi
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
RumiEverything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
Tags: quest rumi ideas-are-power
When someone beats a rug,
the blows are not against the rug,
but against the dust in it.
Tags: love rumi corporeal-punishment love-is-like-a-lawsuit
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one who becomes a servant of lovers
is really a fortunate sovereign.
Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love.
Love is a cloud that scatters pearls.
Tags: rumi intellect-is-a-shackle
Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast!
For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.
Tags: intellect
Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight is blind
and try to see a treasure in everyone.
Tags: poetry unity muslim rumi blind muhammad
My friend, you thought you lost Him;
that all your life you've been separated from Him.
Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him,
and haven't searched within your own house.
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