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Jalal ad-Din Rumi Quotes

«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.»
«We can?t help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.»
«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.»
«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?»
«Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.»
«Why do you stay in prisonwhen the door is so wide open?Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence.»
«You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.»
«To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.»
«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.»
«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; God is the sun.»
Author: Jalal ad-Din Rumi (Mystic, Poet) | About: God, Reason | Keywords: hides, officer, the king, The Shadow

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