Showing posts with label Rumi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rumi. Show all posts

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Don't let them disappear

Once you have met 
a true human being, 
let him not disappear 
    from the horizon of your heart.  
                                                         Rumi

Monday, May 23, 2011

The Day of Reckoning



If you know the value of every article of merchandise
but you don’t know the value of your own soul
it will have all been pointless.

You’ve come to know the fortunate
and the inauspicious stars,
but you don’t know whether you yourself
are fortunate or unlucky.

This, this is the essence of all sciences—
that you should know who you will be
when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

Rumi—Mathnavi III 2652-54