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“Didn't I tell you
not to be satisfied with the veil of this world?”

Rumi

Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)
Context: Didn't I tell you
not to be satisfied with the veil of this world?
I am the master illusionist,
it is me, who is the welcoming banner at the gate of your contentment.

World

“When in Love,
body, mind, heart and soul don't even exist.”

Rumi

Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)

Love , Soul , Heart

“To Love is to reach God.
Never will a Lover's chest
feel any sorrow.
Never will a Lover's robe
be touched by mortals.
Never will a Lover's body
be found buried in the earth.
To Love is to reach God.”

Rumi

Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)

Love , God , Feeling , Lovers

“Love said to me,
there is nothing that is not me.
Be silent.”

Rumi

Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)

Love

“Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”

Rumi

"Unmarked boxes" /Ode#1937
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)

Sad

“If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.”

Rumi

“This is a gathering of Lovers.
In this gathering
there is no high, no low,
no smart, no ignorant,
no special assembly,
no grand discourse,
no proper schooling required.
There is no master,
no disciple.”

Rumi

Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)
Context: This is a gathering of Lovers.
In this gathering
there is no high, no low,
no smart, no ignorant,
no special assembly,
no grand discourse,
no proper schooling required.
There is no master,
no disciple.
This gathering is more like a drunken party,
full of tricksters, fools,
mad men and mad women.
This is a gathering of Lovers.

School , Lovers

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”

Rumi

“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

Rumi

“When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.”

Rumi

Rumi Daylight (1990)

Truth , Disease

“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.”

Rumi

Hurt

“Reason is like an officer when the King appears;
The officer then loses his power and hides himself.
Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.”

Rumi

As translated in Masnavi I Ma'navi : The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí (1898) edited by Edward Henry Whinfield Book IV, Story IV : "Bayazid and his impious sayings when beside himself"

God , Sun

“Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.”

Rumi

Rumi Daylight (1990)

“My head is bursting
with the joy of the unknown.
My heart is expanding a thousand fold.
Every cell,
taking wings,
flies about the world.
All seek separately
the many faces of my Beloved.”

Rumi

Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)

Joy

“The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.”

Rumi

As quoted in Rumi Wisdom: Daily Teachings from the Great Sufi Master (2000) by Timothy Freke
Variant: The fault is in the blamer — Spirit sees nothing to criticize.