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All Jalāl ad-Din ar-Rumi Pages (350)

Through Love

Lesson 275: Through Love Through love bitter things seem sweet. Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold. Through love dregs taste like clear wine. Through love agonies are healing balm… View »

You Are a Drop

Lesson 274: You Are a Drop You are a drop: Divine being is the ocean. While you still live, hold steadily before you the vision of the whole and you will be the whole. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (T… View »

The Nightingale

Lesson 273: The Nightingale If you think of the rose, you will become the rose. If you think of the nightingale, you will become the nightingale. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Ha… View »

Eternal Beauty

Lesson 272: Eternal Beauty I burnish bright the mirror of my heart until at last, reflected for my rapture, the Self's eternal beauty appears. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harve… View »

Image of the Beloved

Lesson 271: Image of the Beloved While the image of the Beloved burns in our heart the whole of life flows in contemplation. Wherever union with the Beloved exists there is, in the middle of th… View »

Gaze in Wonder

Lesson 270: Gaze in Wonder You're a fish in the trap of the body; look at the fisherman, don't look at the net. Gaze in wonder at the infinite rose garden, don't consider that thorn that wounde… View »

The Invisible

Lesson 269: The Invisible When the Invisible has become your food, you've won Eternal Life and death has fled. When the agony of love has begun to expand your life, roses and lilacs take over t… View »

Love Drives You Mad

Lesson 268: Love Drives You Mad Love drives you mad from revelation to revelation through ordeal after ordeal until humble and broken you are carried tenderly into the heart of the rose. - Ja… View »

Drunk on the Wine

Lesson 267: Drunk on the Wine May I burn each second of my life to love. - Jalal-ud-Din Rumi (Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi) View »

Divine Mystery

Lesson 266: Divine Mystery You are an ass if you want anything but God, A sad and crazy ass trying to get fat on ash; Know that the grass of ash dirties the mouth that eats it. Remember, always… View »