Quotes by Jalal ud-Din Rumi

The following are quotes from Jalal ud-Din Rumi:

Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love.

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

I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas, but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere. I searched on the mountains and in the valleys but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him. I went to the Caaba in Mecca, but He was not there either. I questioned the scholars and philosophers but He was beyond their understanding. I then looked into my heart and it was there where He dwelled that I saw Him He was nowhere else to be found.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

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