RUMI: On Seeing Inner Light

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SEEING THE LIGHT

 

(Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi, the Great Sufi Master)

 

The house of the heart that remains without illumination from the rays of

the Magnificent Sun is narrow and dark like a miser's soul, empty of the

Loving King's sweet taste. The Sun's light does not shine in that heart,

space does not expand, doors do not open: The grave would be more pleasant

for you -- so come, arise from the tomb of your heart!

(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 37)

 

Wait for the illuminating openness, as though your chest were filling with

light, as when God said, Did we not expand you? (Koran 94:1).

(The Essential Rumi, p. 255)

 

The Image of the heart-expanding Moon entered my heart. Since there is

neither road nor door, I wonder from whence He came... How happy is my

firelike, iron heart as the locus of His Light! Does not a mirror rejoice

when purity enters?... The attributes of human nature have been annihilated,

the Attributes of God have come!... All pride has gone, all Glory has come!

(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, pp. 264-265)

 

At the time of union, only God knows what that Moon is! For even during

separation, what incredible joy and expansion of spirit!

(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 244)

 

Oh my moon, my bright candle! From the time I first saw Thy Face, wherever I

sit I am joyful, wherever I go I dwell in the midst of roses. Wherever the

King's Image may be, that is a garden and place of contemplation; whatever

station I enter, I am wrapped in pleasure. Although the doors of this

six-sided monastery are closed, the Moon-faced Beloved sticks His head in my

window from No-place.

(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 298)

 

How could the rays of God's light fit into the heart? Yet when you search

you will find it there, not from the point of view of containment such that

it could be said that the light is in that place. You will find it through

that place ...

(Signs of the Unseen: The Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi, p. 173)

 

The window determines how much light enters the house, even if the moon's

radiance fills the east and the west.

(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 10)

 

He is overflowing with God's light -- he has broken the cup of the body, he

is Absolute Light.

(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 314)

 

.... the reality of day is the inmost consciousness of the saints: Beside

their noon, day is but a shadow.

(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 100)

 

When man receives light from God, he becomes the object of the angel's

prostration, since he was chosen...

(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 193)

 

Do you know what shines into the heart's mirror? Only he who knows purity

knows the Image displayed there.

(The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, p. 263)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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