52 ordspråk av Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun.
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Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.
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Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
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Silence within silence, no words within blank space, nothing on blank page, less within the void.
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Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
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The delight a friend feels when he hears a friends voice bring all that matters. There are those who hear within a voice the essence being said, and there are those who can't.
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The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.
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The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that ??
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The hurt you embrace becomes joy.
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The lion is most handsome when looking for food
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This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
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Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it. Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, where something might be planted, a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.
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Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.
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We can’t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
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We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust
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