“Raise your words, not voice.
It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
https://twitter.com/wise_chimp/status/1488946174321205253?s=21
“We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.”
Misattributed
Source: Frequently quoted on social media, but appears to be a misquote of Thomas Browne's "We carry within us the wonders we seek without us: there is all Africa and her prodigies in us" in Religio Medici (1643) pt. 1, sect. 15.
"A Community of the Spirit" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)
Hush Don't Say Anything to God (1999)
Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi (2000)
“Disputational knowing wants customers.
It has no soul.”
"The Sheikh who played with the Children" in Ch. 4 : Spring Giddiness, p. 46
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)
“Our caravan leader is the pride of the world, Mustafa [Muhammad]”
As quoted in And Muhammad is his Messenger : The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety (1985) by Annemarie Schimmel, p. 215
“Masnavi-I Ma'navi, Book III, verses 1259–1270”
Some Hindoos were exhibiting an elephant in a dark room, and many people collected to see it. But as the place was too dark to permit them to see the elephant, they all felt it with their hands, to gain an idea of what it was like. One felt its trunk, and declared that the beast resembled a water-pipe; another felt its ear, and said it must be a large fan; another its leg, and thought it must be a pillar; another felt its back, and declared the beast must be like a great throne. According to the part which each felt, he gave a different description of the animal. One, as it were, called it "Dal" and another "Alif."
If you give a candle to everyone, their differences will be gone,
Compare the sensual eye to the
hand of one that felt the elephant.
The eye of outward sense is as the palm of a hand,
The whole of the object is not grasped in the palm.
The sea itself is one thing, the foam another;
Neglect the foam, and regard the sea with your eyes.
The Masnavi, Book III, Story V, as translated in Masnavi I Ma'navi : The Spiritual Couplets of Maulána Jalálu-'d-Dín Muhammad Rúmí (1898) by Edward Henry Whinfield
"In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: In Cairo, Dreaming of Baghdad." Ch. 20 : In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: More Teaching Stories, p. 206
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)
“The branch might seem like the fruit's origin:
In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.”
Mathnawi
Teachings of Rumi (1999)
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)
“God's joy moved from unmarked box to unmarked box,
from cell to cell.”
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)