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Experiencing freedom<br>(Quotations from

Jalaluddin Rumi)<br>Try not to understand the work of the

pure saints by comparing them with yourself ... By

such comparisons all the world's inhabitants have gone

astray... They hold themselves up as equal to the prophets,

imagining that the saints are just like themselves. They

say, "Look: We are human and they are human, both of

us must eat and sleep." Out of blindness they do not

know that between them is an infinite difference...

This person eats food and gives out filth; the other

also eats, but his food is transformed entirely into

the Light of God. This one eats and gives birth to

avarice and envy; the other eats and gives birth only to

love for the One. <br>(The Sufi Path of Love: The

Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 144)<br><br>No one looks

for stars when the sun's out. A person blended into

God does not disappear. He or she is just completely

soaked in God's qualities. <br>(The Essential Rumi, p.

114)<br><br>The lovers {of God} ... have all become one, kneaded

together by Love. When a thousand corpses are thrown into

the saltmines, they all become salt -- no duality

remains, no "man from Marv" or "man from Balkh." <br>(The

Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p.

219)<br><br>The spirits of wolves and dogs are separate, every

one, but the spirits of God's lions are united. I

refer to their spirits by a plural noun because that

one spirit is a hundred in relation to bodies.

<br>(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of

Rumi, p. 71)<br><br>Although those drunk with God are

thousands, they are one; those drunk with self-will are all

twos and threes. <br>(The Sufi Path of Love: The

Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 312)<br><br>When you are

with everyone but me, you're with no one. <br>When you

are with no one but me, you're with everyone.

<br>Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone.

<br>When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.

<br>(The Essential Rumi, p. 28)