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Topic: Rumi

Posted By: Alex
Subject: Rumi
Date Posted: 09 February 2011 at 7:38pm

"Don't turn your head. Keep looking at the bandaged wound. That's where the light enters you. And don't believe for a moment that you're healing yourself. "

- Jalal ad-Din Muammad Rumi - (September 1207 � 17 December 1273). 13th-century Poet, Islamic jurist, Theologian, and Mystic.

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Posted By: Alex
Date Posted: 01 March 2011 at 11:41am

In generosity and helping others, be like a river
In compassion and grace, be like the sun
In concealing other's faults, be like the night
In anger and fury, be as if you have died
In modesty and humility, be like the earth
In tolerance, be like the sea
And either appear as you are, or be as you appear

Received from oral tradition of Rumi, paraphrased by Kabir Helminski.

Posted By: Alex
Date Posted: 08 April 2011 at 4:23pm

The Thief Will Enter

No matter what plans you make,

no matter what you acquire,

the thief will enter from the unguarded side.

Be occupied, then, with what you really value

and let the thief take something less.

Mathnawi II, 1505-07