6 Posts found for Author: Mevlana Rumi

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Author: Mevlana Rumi | Subjects: Concepts, Pain & Suffering

If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don’t abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.

Author: Mevlana Rumi | Subjects: Intelligence | Knowledge, Wisdom

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

Author: Mevlana Rumi | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Religion

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

Author: Mevlana Rumi | Subjects: Religion, Wisdom

There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

Author: Mevlana Rumi | Subjects: Psychology | Behavior, Wisdom

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

Authors: 13th century sufi poet and mystic, Mevlana Rumi | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Religion