Greatest Quotes #38: Jalaluddin Rumi

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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

Jalaluddin Rumi


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A strange passion is moving in my head. My heart has become a bird Which searches in the sky. Every part of me goes in different directions. Is it really so That the one I love is everywhere?

حين تعثر على الجمال في قلبك ستعثر عليه في كل قلب

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door of your
study
and begin reading. Take down a musical
instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss
the ground.

What can I do my friends, if I do not know?
I am neither Christian nor Jew, nor Muslim nor Hindu.
What can I do? What can I do?

Not of the East, nor of the West,
Nor of the land, nor of the sea,
Not of nature's essence, nor of circling heavens.
What could I be?

کی شود این روان من ساکن
این چنین ساکن روان که منم

Close the language door and
open the lovers window.
The moon won’t use the door, only the window.

Oh Beloved,
take me.
Liberate my soul.
Fill me with your love and
release me from the two worlds.
If I set my heart on anything but you
let fire burn me from inside.

Oh Beloved,
take away what I want.
Take away what I do.
Take away what I need.
Take away everything
that takes me from you.

The drum we hear inside us now
we may not hear tomorrow.

We have such fear of what comes next. Death.
These loves are like pieces of cotton.
Throw them in the fire.

Death will be a meeting like that flaring up,
a presence you have always wanted to be with.

This body and this universe
keep us from being free.

Those of you decorating your cells
so beautifully, do you think
they won't be torn down?

The eventual demolishing of prisons
is a given. Fire-change, disaster-change,
you can trust that those will come around to you.