Quotes By Author: Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Peygamber dedi: ‘Kadın akıllılara ve gönül sahiplerine tam galip gelir. Cahillerse kadına üstün olur, çünkü onlar sert ve serkeş davranır.’ İncelik, letafet ve insaf onlarda az bulunur, çünkü tabiatlarında hayvanlık galiptir. Sevgi ve incelik, insanlık vasfıdır. Öfke ve şehvet, hayvanlık vasfıdır. O, Hakk’ın ışığıdır; sevgili değil. O, sanki yaratıcıdır; yaratılmış değildir.”

“There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can’t hope.The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.”

“Bitter your acts, bitter am I,Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,Pleasant and gentle, so you are,Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.”

“Knowledge that is acquiredis not like this. Those who have it worry ifaudiences like it or not.It’s a bait for popularity.Disputational knowing wants customers.It has no soul…The only real customer is God.Chew quietlyyour sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stayplayfully childish.”

“You’re water. We’re the millstone.You’re wind. We’re dust blown up into shapes.You’re spirit. We’re the opening and closing of our hands. You’re the clarity.We’re the language that tries to say it.You’re joy. We’re all the different kinds of laughing.”

“The same wind that uproots treesmakes the grass shine.The lordly wind loves the weaknessand the lowness of grasses.Never brag of being strong.The axe doesn’t worry how thick the branches are.It cuts them to pieces. But not the leaves.It leaves the leaves alone.”

“You have forgotten the Onewho doesn’t care about ownership,who doesn’t try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange.”

“An eye is meant to see things.The soul is here for its own joy.A head has one use: For loving a true love.Feet: To chase after.Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,for learning what men have done and tried to do.Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blindwhen it only wants to see why.A lover is always accused of something.But when he finds his love, whatever was lostin the looking comes back completely changed.”

“Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?”