- Poet | September 30, 1207 - December 17, 1273
What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.
Rumi
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Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.
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You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?
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Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.
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It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
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The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.
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When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.
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I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'
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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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I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.
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