"Ali In Battle
Learn from Ali how to fight
without your ego participating.
God's Lion did nothing
that didn't originate
from his deep center.
Once… - Rumi
"Ali In Battle
Learn from Ali how to fight without your ego participating.
God's Lion did nothing that didn't originate from his deep center.
Once in battle he got the best of a certain knight and quickly drew his sword. The man, helpless on the ground, spat in Ali's face. Ali dropped his sword, relaxed, and helped the man to his feet.
"Why have you spared me? How has lightning contracted back into its cloud? Speak, my prince, so that my soul can begin to stir in me like an embryo."
Ali was quiet and then finally answered, "I am God's Lion, not the lion of passion. The sun is my lord. I have no longing except for the One.
When a wind of personal reaction comes, I do not go along with it.
There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of true nature stays where it's always been.
There's nothing now except the divine qualities. Come through the opening into me.
Your impudence was better than any reverence, because in this moment I am you and you are me.
I give you this opened heart as God gives gifts: the poison of your spit has become the honey of friendship.
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Rumi
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (جلالالدین محمد رومی) Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Balkhi (جلالالدین محمد بلخى) (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273) was an Afghan philosopher, theologian, poet, teacher, and founder of the Mevlevi (or Mawlawi) order of Sufism; also known as Mevlana (Our Guide), Jalaluddin Rumi, or simply Rumi.
I am smiling at myself today There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left Free from all desire I sit quietly like Earth My silent cry echoes like thunder Throughout the universe I am not worried about it I know it will be heard by no one Except me.
If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.
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On the day I die, when I'm being carried toward the grave, don't weep. Don't say,
He's gone! He's gone. Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets and
the moon sets, but they're not gone. Death is a coming together. The tomb
looks like a prison, but it's really release into union. The human seed goes
down in the ground like a bucket into the well where Joseph is. It grows and
comes up full of some unimagined beauty. Your mouth closes here, and immediately
opens with a shout of joy there. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -
One who does what the Friend wants done will never need a friend.
There's a bankruptcy that's pure gain. The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.
A rose's rarest essence lives in the thorn. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Childhood, youth, and maturity, and now old age.
Every guest agrees to stay three days, no more.
Master, you told me to remind you. Time to go. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -
The angel of death arrives, and I spring joyfully up.
No one knows what comes over me when I and that messenger speak! — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -
When you come back inside my chest no matter how far I've wandered off, I look around and see the way.
At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come then, I'll sit up and sing. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Last night things flowed between us that cannot now be said or written.
Only as I'm being carried out and down the road, as the folds of my shroud open in the wind,
will anyone be able to read, as on the petal-pages of a turning bud, what passed through us last night. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -
I placed one foot on the wide plain of death, and some grand immensity sounded on the emptiness.
I have felt nothing ever like the wild wonder of that moment.
Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings
