Quote: 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? [Jalal-Uddin Rumi]
Quote: 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. [Jalal-Uddin Rumi]
Quote: The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him. [Jalal-Uddin Rumi]
Quote: Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be. [Jalal-Uddin Rumi]
Quote: Only from the heart Can you touch the sky. [Jalal-Uddin Rumi]
Quote: 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. [Jalal-Uddin Rumi]
Quote: Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness. [Jalal-Uddin Rumi]
Quote: 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. [Jalal-Uddin Rumi]
Quote: 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; Go is the sun. [Jalal-Uddin Rumi]
Quote: Let the beauty we love be what we do. [Jalal-Uddin Rumi]