All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Allah made the illusion look real and the real an illusion. He concealed the sea and made the foam visible, the wind… — Rumi Copy Share Image
This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth. — Rumi Copy Share Image
When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying… — Rumi Copy Share Image
We are the fingertips of blind illusion, You are the absolute Cause of causes. — Rumi Copy Share Image
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom… — Rumi Copy Share Image
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi Copy Share Image
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. — Rumi Copy Share Image
“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share Image
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share Image
