52 ordspråk av Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
A shadow cannot ignore the sun that all day creates and moves it.
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All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.
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Come out of the circle of time and into the Circle of Love.
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Days of wanting. Let them go by without worrying that they do. Stay where you are inside such a pure, hollow note.
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Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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Don't look at your form, however ugly or beautiful. Look at love and at the aim of your quest...O you whose lips are parched, keep looking for water. Those parched lips are proof that eventually you will reach the source.
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Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still
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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
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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.
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Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
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He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun
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How do the birds make great sky circles... They fall and falling they are given wings.
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How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection?
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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?
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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.
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