You have seen the mountain, not the mine within the mountain.
Attributed quotes — Rumi
1207–1273 Afghanistan
369 quotes
I extracted the marrow of the Koran, and threw the bone to the dogs.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Repentance lights on him who tests one tested already.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Thy light is at once joined with all things and apart from all.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
God drops into the heart a single pearl-drop
Which is not bestowed on oceans or skies.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
The head whose reason has fled is a tail.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Till the corn be ground with the mill, how can our table be furnished with bread?
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body,
Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Serpents’ poison is life to serpents,
In relation to mankind it is death.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
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With thee how should we be afraid of loss
O thou, who turnest every loss to gain.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
They say ‘What is love?’ Say ‘renunciation of will’
Whoso has not escaped from will, no will has he.
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)
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