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Meditations of Rumi
There is no cause for fear. It is imagination, blocking you as a wooden bolt holds the door. Bum that bar . . . Every thought has a parallel action. Every prayer has a sound and a physical form. The man of God is not an expert made by books. First you were mineral, then vegetable, then man.
There is no cause for fear. It is imagination, blocking you as a wooden bolt holds the door. Bum that bar . . . Every thought has a parallel action. Every prayer has a sound and a physical form. The man of God is not an expert made by books. First you were mineral, then vegetable, then man. You will be an angel, and you will pass beyond that too. There are a thousand forms of mind. If the sea-water did not rise into the sky, where would the garden get its life ? A totally wise man would cease to exist in the ordinary sense. You make no spark by striking earth on a flint. The worker is hidden in the workshop. To the ignorant, a pearl seems a mere stone. If a tree could move on foot or feather, it would not suffer the agony of the saw nor the wounds of the blade. What bread looks like depends upon whether you are hungry or not. You may seek a furnace, but it would burn you. Perhaps you need only the weaker flame of a lamp.
Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold. Whoever says everything is true is a fool, whoever says all is untrue is a liar. A great obstacle in the Path is fame. God’s mirror : the front is the heart, its back the world. The infinite universe lies beyond this world. They say: ‘He cannot be found’ . . . Something that cannot be ‘found’ is what I desire. To make wine, you must ferment the grape juice. Water does not run uphill. You have two ‘heads’. The original, which is concealed, the derivative, which is the visible one. The moment you entered this world of form, an escape ladder was put out for you. Wool only becomes a carpet because knowledge is available. To boil water you need an intermediary – the vessel.
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