Jalal Rumi
Jalal Rumi
acceptance beyond ideas meet
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
acceptance door outside stay wide
Why do you stay in prisonwhen the door is so wide open?Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.Live in silence.
ground might paper sheet spot
Try and be a sheet of paper with nothing on it.Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing,where something might be planted,a seed, possibly, from the Absolute.
care gets ocean takes
You are so weak. Give up to grace.The ocean takes care of each wavetill it gets to shore.
animal became death died less plant rose
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?
eyelashes fiery heart pen poem
One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
blank less silence within words
Silence within silence, no words within blank space, nothing on blank page, less within the void.
dragged liberated observe skirt suffering sun tied
Liberated from suffering and searchI have tied myself to the skirt of God.If I fly, I look at the summits I ascend.If I go around in circleI observe the axis on which I revolve.If I am dragged by a burden,I know where I go.For I am the moon, and the sun is my guide.
cute-love events love lover sober worry
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.
difference god stay
When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.
deaf feels heart speaks words
Look at your heart and tongue, one feels but deaf and dumb, the other speaks in words and signs.
fallen love
Look at Love...how it tangleswith the one fallen in love .
fallen love
Look at Love... how it tangles with the one fallen in love .
bring delight essence feels friend hears voice within
The delight a friend feels when he hears a friends voice bring all that matters. There are those who hear within a voice the essence being said, and there are those who can't.