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Attributed quotes — Rumi

1207–1273 Afghanistan

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This universe is a drop from the ocean of his beauty, unable from its fulness to find place in the parent bosom.

Attributed Pebbles, Pearls and Gems of the Orient (1882)

Our celestial spirit is free to eternity,
Although for a short time we are imprisoned in forms of flesh.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

My soul is grown weary of Pharaoh and his tyranny,
I desire the light of the countenance of Moses, son of ʿImran.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

The soul resembles a clear mirror, the body is dust upon it,
Our beauty is invisible since we are under the dust.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

In the world there is nought so wondrous as the sun,
But the Sun of the soul sets not and has no yesterday.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

If for the Faith thou bear’st thy wealth, it then
The Prophet says, is pure to righteous men.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

I am thy lute, on every vein (chord) of mine
Thou strikest the quill, and I vibrate.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Thou hadst not seen a single blind man seated on the moat-edge,
Had they sought God instead of morsel and pittance.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

We are pieces of steel, and Thy love is the magnet,
Thou art the source of all inspiration, in myself I have seen none.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Love carried off as plunder the chattels which we possessed,
We are independent of profit and loss and market.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

What pearl art thou that none possesseth the price of thee?
What does the world possess that is not thy gift?

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Ah! many are the conditions which at first are hard,
But are afterwards relieved and lose their harshness
Oftentimes hope succeeds to hopelessness
Many times does sunlight succeed to darkness.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Thought is an arrow shot by God into the air
How can it stay in the air? It returns to God.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Why should setting be injurious to the sun and moon?
To thee it seems a setting, but ’tis a rising;
Tho’ the vault seems a prison, ’tis the release of the soul.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Night and day comes a winged arrow from the hidden bow,
Yield up your sweet life; what can you do? you have no shield.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

For love of our Almighty God, the Lord of all,
Who would not die; a stock, a block, we needs must call.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Jesus, thy spirit, is present beside thee,
Ask aid of Him for He is a sufficient helper.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

Union exists beyond all thought and speech
Between great Allah and the soul of each.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

What seed went down into the earth but it grew,
Why this doubt of thine as regards the seed of man?

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

The moon sheds her light and the dogs howl;
Everyone acts according to his nature,
To each his office is allotted by the divine decree.

Attributed A Dictionary of Oriental Quotations (1911)

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