Quotes by Jalal-Uddin Rumi

Jalal-Uddin Rumi

Jalal-Uddin Rumi

Persian poet

Lived from: 1207 - 1273

Category: Philosophers | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagIran

Born: 30 september 1207 Died: 17 december 1273

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  • Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.
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  • I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
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  • Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
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  • Let the beauty we love be what we do.
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  • Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.
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  • Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.
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  • Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
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  • 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; Go is the sun.
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  • Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.
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  • The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.
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  • You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.
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What are the most famous quotes from Jalal-Uddin Rumi?

The two most famous quotes from Jalal-Uddin Rumi are:

  • "Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him."
  • "I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"

When did Jalal-Uddin Rumi live?

Jalal-Uddin Rumi was born in 1207 and died in the year 1273.