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All Jalāl ad-Din ar-Rumi Pages (350)

Look at Me

Lesson 345: Look at Me Look at me! I am your companion in the tomb. On that night you leave your shop and your house, You will hear my salutation in the tomb, And you will know then that never… View »

All Secret Things

Lesson 344: All Secret Things On your feet, my friends! Let us go! It is time to leave this world. A drum is beating from heaven, calling us, calling us. Look: the camel-driver's awake, prepari… View »

The Endless Path

Lesson 343: The Endless Path On the Endless Path in God Don't stay in any of the stations, Don't stay in any station you have won – Go on! Go on! Desire more and more! The man who has dropsy ca… View »

You Will Receive

Lesson 342: You Will Receive From heaven, the starry spheres, the void, you will receive, continually, hundreds of impressions. Why do I say impressions? I mean; the direct vision of God. - J… View »

Polish Your Heart

Lesson 341: Polish Your Heart Polish your heart and you'll soar above all color and perfume; you will contemplate Beauty ceaselessly; you will abandon the form and rind of consciousness, and un… View »

The Life of Life

Lesson 340: The Life of Life I am the life of life. I am that cat, this stone, no one. I have thrown duality away like an old dishrag, I see and know all times and worlds As one, one, always on… View »

Nature

Lesson 339: Nature I do not belong to the land, or to any known or unknown sea. Nature cannot own or claim me, nor can heaven; Nor can India, China, Bulgaria. My birthplace is placelessness, My… View »

Who I Am

Lesson 338: Who I Am Define and narrow me, you starve yourself of yourself. Nail me down in a box of cold words, that box is your coffin. I do not know who I am. I am in astounded lucid confusi… View »

Come Closer Still

Lesson 337: Come Closer Still In this house, there are thousands of corpses You sit and say: "Here is my kingdom." A handful of dust moans "I was hair." Another handful whispers: "I was bones."… View »

Come

Lesson 336: Come Come, like a real dervish, and dance among us, Don't joke, don't boast I am already present. In the center of your house I am like a pillar, On your rooftop I bow my head like… View »