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[jannah]

Rumi....

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[jannah]

Don't Be Bitter My Friend

don't be bitter my friend
you'll regret it soon
hold to your togetherness
or surely you'll scatter

don't walk away gloomy
from this garden
you'll end up like an owl
dwelling in old ruins

face the war and
be a warrior like a lion
or you'll end up like a pet
tucked away in a stable

once you conquer
your selfish self
all your darkness
will change to light
--Rumi




Look at her face.
Open your eyes into her eyes.
When she laughs, everyone falls in love.
Life your head up off the table. See,
there are no edges to this garden.
Sweet fruits, every kind you can think of,
branches green and always
slightly moving.

How long should you look at earth's face?
Come back and look again.
Now you see the nervous greed
deep inside plants and animals. Now you see them
constantly giving themselves away.

Greed and generosity are evidence of love.
If you can't see love itself,
see the results.
If you can't find love-colors in anything,
look for the pale, tired face of a lover.

Take this town with its stores and everyone
rushing around, some with a lot of money,
some without any.

Rumi, - Ghazal (Ode) 1101

[simply_sister]

The Indian Tree

A learned man once said, for the sake of saying something ,
"There is a tree

in India. If you eat the fruit of that tree, you'll never grow
old & never die."

Stories about "the tree" were passed around, & finally
a king sent his envoy

to India to look for it. People laughed at the man. They
slapped him on the back

& called out, "Sir, I know where your tree is, but it's far
in the jungle & you'll need

a ladder!" He kept traveling, following such directions &
feeling foolish, for years.

He was about to return to the king when he met a wise man.
"Great teacher, show me

some kindness in this search for the tree." "My son, this is
not an actual tree.

though it's been called that. Sometimes it's called a sun,
sometimes an ocean, or

a cloud. These words point to the wisdom that comes through
a true human being, which

may have many effects, the least of which is eternal life!
In the same way one

person can be a father to you & a son to someone else,
uncle to another & nephew

to yet another, so what you are looking for has many names,
& one existence. Don't

search for one of the names. Move beyond any attachment
to names. "Every war

& every conflict between human beings has happened because
of some disagreement about

names. It's such an unnecessary foolishness, because just
beyond the arguing there's a long

table of companionship, set & waiting for us to sit down.

[blackrose]

"The intelligent want self-control; children want candy." -Mawlana Jalaludeen Rumi


“In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you.” -Rumi


"With the Beloved's water of life, no illness remains
In the Beloved's rose garden of union, no thorn remains.
They say there is a window from one heart to another
How can there be a window where no wall remains?"
-Rumi


“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.”

[blackrose]

At the twilight, a moon appeared in the sky;
Then it landed on earth to look at me.
Like a hawk stealing a bird at the time of prey;
That moon stole me and rushed back into the sky.
I looked at myself, I did not see me anymore;
For in that moon, my body turned as fine as soul.
The nine spheres disappeared in that moon;
The ship of my existence drowned in that sea.

RUMI- Divan, 649:1-3,5

[blackrose]

You've no idea how hard I've looked for a gift to bring You.
Nothing seemed right.

What's the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the Ocean.
Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient.

It's no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these.

So- I've brought you a mirror.

Look at yourself and remember me.

- Jalaluddin Rumi

[blackrose]

Don't grieve, anything you lose comes round in another form.



"You live for God not for riches, You die for God not from fear or pain."


I'll hang your love on the forehead of heaven.
I'll lay your cruel hands on my hurting heart.
Where you walk, where your foot touches earth,
I'll secretly go, just to lay eyes on that dirt.

[blackrose]

"Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world.

The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.

Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade,

But do not be disheartened,

The source they come from is eternal, growing,

Branching out, giving new life and new joy.

Why do you weep?

The source is within you

And this whole world is springing up from it".

-Rumi

[blackrose]

That which Allah said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful


Rumi - Guest House
This being human is a guest house
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

[blackrose]

I'm neither beautiful nor ugly
Neither this nor that

I'm neither the peddler in the market
Nor the nightingale in the rose garden

Teacher give me a name
So that I'll know what to call myself

I'm neither slave nor free
Neither candle nor iron

I've not fallen in love with anyone
Nor is anyone in love with me

Whether I'm sinful or good
Sin and goodness come from another
Not from me

Wherever He drags me I go
With no say in the matter

~ Rumi

[blackrose]

you were born with wings. why prefer to crawl through life?



The minute I heard my first love story
I started looking for you,
not knowing
how blind I was
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere
They're in each other all along
-Rumi



If you fornicate, fornicate with a princess, If you steal, steal a pearl!"
- Sayeedina Rumi (ra)
 

Is this one really Rumi's too?

[blackrose]

one of my favorites:

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?"

[blackrose]

All through eternity
Beauty unveils His exquisite form in the solitude of nothingness;
He holds a mirror to His Face and beholds His own beauty.
He is the knower and the known,
the seer and the seen;
No eye but His own
has ever looked upon this Universe.
His every quality finds an expression:
Eternity becomes the verdant field of Time and Space;
Love, the life-giving garden of this world.
Every branch and leaf and fruit
Reveals an aspect of His perfection-
The cypress give hint of His majesty,
The rose gives tidings of His beauty.
Whenever Beauty looks,
Love is also there;
Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek
Love lights Her fire from that flame.
When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night
Love comes and finds a heart entangled in tresses.
Beauty and Love are as body and soul.
Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond.
They have been together since the beginning of time-
Side by side, step by step.

Rumi

[blackrose]

you are an ocean in a drop of dew,
all the universes in a thin sack
of blood! What are these pleasures
then, these joys, these worlds,
that you keep reaching for, hoping
they will make you more alive?

rumi

My heart is so small
it is almost invisible.
How can you place
such big sorrows in it?
"Look" he answered,
"your eyes are even smaller,
yet they behold the world"

[blackrose]

On my heart
In beautiful calligraphy
you've written words
that only you and i can know.
Their secret you promised
to reveal on day
but now i see
you were only teasing



WHISPERS OF LOVE...
Lover whispers to my ear,
"Better to be a prey than a hunter.
Make yourself My fool.
Stop trying to be the sun and become a speck!
Dwell at My door and be homeless.
Don't pretend to be a candle, be a moth,
so you may taste the savor of Life
and know the power hidden in serving."