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Rumi Quotes about Wisdom - Page 3

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When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it.

When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.

Wisdom, Regret, Confused

Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is borne along by his own power and of his own volition. Every movement made by the drowned man - indeed, every act and word that issue from him - comes from the water, not from him... The saints are like this. They have died before death.

Wisdom, Islamic, Men

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

Wisdom, Ocean, Rivers

Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!

Wisdom, Looks, Pearls

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.

Spiritual, Wisdom, Morning

Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.330, Penguin UK

Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!

Wisdom, Blessed, Islamic

Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.

Wise, Spiritual, Wisdom

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.

Spiritual, Wisdom, Heart

"The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi". Book by William C. Chittick, p. 162, 1983.

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.

Spiritual, Wisdom, Light

We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

Spiritual, Wisdom, Taste

Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; if you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

Wisdom, Spring, Islamic

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

Death, Wisdom, Fear

Jalalu'l-Din Rumi, Jal?l al-D?n R?m? (Maulana), Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (2001). “Selected Poems of Rumi”, p.43, Courier Corporation

Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

Wisdom, Eye, Spiritual Growth

Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “There Is A Community Of Spirit”

The soul is here for its own joy.

Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who fares without any doubt, adhere to his footprints if you do not know the way. Cleave to the footprints of the deer and advance with care that you may reach the musk-gland. By means of such trekking, even if you walk on fire, you will reach the luminous peak.

Wisdom, Blessed, Islamic

You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the suffering you have endured but what a pity you have not discovered the Makkah thats inside

Wisdom, Flower, Islamic

Your heart mirrors not His love, Rusty with your sins it is, Remove this rust and you shall Perceive how Glorious He is.

Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

Intelligence is the shadow of objective truth. How can the shadow vie with sunshine?

Wisdom, Islamic, Sunshine

Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game.

Wisdom, Courage, Children

"The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose". Book edited by Stephen Mitchell, 1991.

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