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Monday, January 11, 2010

Rumi replenishes ...






Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love. (Rumi)


Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition. (Rumi)


When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. (Rumi)

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring your talky business to an end. (Rumi)

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. (Rumi)

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

-The Gift of Water

Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty, a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin. (Rumi)


What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe. (Rumi)

Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still. (Rumi)

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. (Rumi)

You are the deep innerness of all things, the last word that can be spoken. To each of us you reveal yourselves differently: to the ship as coastline, to the shore as ship. (Rumi)

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away. (Rumi)


My comment:
Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyTRUurTWHM&feature=related

Get the CD Leenah.. it's called " a gift of love " .. will email you later the website where you can order it from as it is not available in stores..

Anonymous said...

Here is the website where you can order the CD from.. I have it.. it's amazing:

http://store.chopra.com/productinfo.asp?item=287&deptcode1=505

leenah. said...

many thanks IYM :D, quite a many of these quotes I gathered from the same book, Chopra's collection 'a gift of love'. Awesome collection :)

leenah. said...

hey IYM, you had once asked about some good translation of Rumi, just laid my hands on one
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19611872/Rumi-Bridge-to-the-Soul
Coleman Bark book.